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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.
The general Contents about the change of the Sabbath.
The generall Contents about the change of the Sabbath.
1. Sufficient Light in the Scriptures for the change of the Sabbath. Thes. 1. 2. Apostolical unwritten-traditions no ground for the change of it. Thes. 2. 3. Neither Churches custom, or any Imperial Law ground of the change of it. Thes. 3. 4. How the observation of the Christian Sabbath ariseth from the fourth Commandment. Thes. 4. 5. How […] day in the week may be called the seventh day. Thes. 7, 8. 6. The will of God the Efficient cause, the Resurrection of Christ the moral cause of the change of the Sabbath. Thes. 10. 7. The Ascension no ground of the change of the Sabbath. Thes. 13. 8. The […] spoiled in his first Creation by the sin of man, hence the Day of Rest may be well changed. Thes. 16. 9. Neither the three days resting of Christ in the grave nor the 33. years of Christs labour, the ground of our labour and rest now. Thes, 18. 10. Not only Christs Resurrection, but an affixed Type to the first Sabbath, is the ground of the abrogation of it. Thes. 20. 11. What the affixed Type to the Sabbath is. Thes. 21. 12. The mere exercises of holy duties upon a day are not any true ground to make such a day the Christian Sabbath. Thes. 25. 13. How holy duties on a day may evince a Sabbath day. Thes. 26. 14. The first day of the week honoured by the Primitive Churches from the Commandment of the Lord Jesus. Thes. 27. 15. The Apostles preaching on the Jewish Sabbath, doth not argue it to be the Christian Sabbath. Thes. 30. 16. The first day of the week proved to be the Christian Sabbath by Divine Institution. Thes. 34. 17. The first place alleged for the Christian Sabbath, Acts 20.7. cleared by nine considerations. Thes. 35. 18. The second place from