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Theses Sabbaticæ, or, The doctrine of the Sabbath wherein the Sabbaths I. Morality, II.…
Theses Sabbaticæ, or, The doctrine of the Sabbath wherein the Sabbaths I. Morality, II. Change, III. Beginning. IV. Sanctification, are clearly discussed, which were first handled more largely in sundry sermons in Cambridge in New-England in opening of the Fourth Commandment : in unfolding whereof many scriptures are cleared, divers cases of conscience resolved, and the moral law as a rule of life to a believer, occasionally and distinctly handled / by Thomas Shepard ...Theses Sabbaticæ, or, The doctrine of the Sabbath wherein the Sabbaths I. Morality, II. Change, III. Beginning. IV. Sanctification, are clearly discussed, which were first handled more largely in sundry sermons in Cambridge in New-England in opening of the Fourth COmmandment : in unfolding whereof many scriptures are cleared, divers cases of conscience resolved, and the morall law as a rule of life to a believer, occasionally and distinctly handled / by Thomas Shepard ...
London: printed by T.R. and E.M. for John Rothwell, 1650
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Thesis 202.
It's no argument that the Sabbath is not moral, because it's said, Mark 2.27. that man is not made for it, but it for man; for saith Mr Ironside, man is made for moral duties, not they for man: For let the Sabbath be taken for the bare rest of the Sabbath, as the Pharisees did, who placed so much Religion in the bare rest, as that they thought it unlawful to heal the sick on that day, or feed the hungry; so man is not made as lastly for the b•re rest, but rather it for man and for his good; but if by Sabbath be meant the Sanctification of that rest, so man is made for it, by Mr Primrose own confession: Nor our Saviour speaks of the Sabbath in the first respect; for the rest of it is but a means to a further and a better end, viz. The true sanctification of it which the Pharisees little looked unto, and therefore he might well say that the Sabbath was made for man, the rest of it being no further good then as it was helpful to man in duties of piety or mercy required of man, in the sanctification thereof: M. Primrose confessing that man is made for the sanctification of the Sabbath, would therefore wind out from this, by making this sanctification on the Sabbath to be no more then what is equally required of man all the week beside: but he is herein also much mistaken; for though works of piety and mercy are required every day, yet they are required with a certain eminency ⟨p. 179⟩and specialty upon the Sabbath day, and thence 'tis that God calls mens to rest from all worldly occasions (which he doth not on the week days) that they might honour God in special upon the Sabbath, as shall hereafter appear.
It's no argument that the Sabbath is not morall, because it's said,