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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Thesis 10.
The word is [Greek or Hebrew], and no Scripture phrase, and therefore not proper, fitly and fully to express the question in controversy, to wit, whether the fourth Commandment be a moral precept. The best friends of this word find it slippery, and can hardly tell what it is, and what they would have to be understood by it, and hence it is become a bone of much Contention, a fit mist, and swamp, for such to fight in, who desire so to contend with their Adversaries, as that themselves may not be known, either where they are, or on what ground they stand: Yet it being a word generally taken up, and commonly used, it may not therefore be amiss, to follow the market measure, and to retain the word with just and meet explications thereof.
The word is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and no Scripture phrase, and therfore not proper, fitly and fully to expresse the question in controversie, to wit, whether the fourth Commandment bee a morall precept. The best friends of this word finde it slippery, and can hardly tell what it is, and what they would have to be understood by it, and hence it is become a bone of much Contention, a fit mist, and swampe, for such to fight in, who desire so to contend with their Adversaries, as that themselves may not bee known, either where they are, or on what ground they stand: Yet it being a word generally taken up, and commonly used, it may not therefore be amisse, to follow the market measure, and to retaine the word with just and meet explications thereof.