A59693:602
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 3.
To make Ecclesiastical Custom, established […] by the Imperial Law of Constantine, to be the […] of ⟨p. 3⟩the change, 1is to make a prop for Prelacy, and a step to Popery, and to open a gap to all humane inventions. For if it be in the Churches power to appoint the greatest Holy day; why may not any other Rite and Ceremony be imposed also? and if it be free to observe this day or not in respect of it self, because it wants a divine institution, and yet necessary to observe it in respect of the Churches Custom and constitution (as some pretend) why may not the Churches Commandment be a rule of obedience in a thousand things else as well as in this? and so introduce Will-Worship, and to serve God after the tradition of men which God abhors?
To make Ecclesiasticall Custome, established 〈…〉 by the Imperiall Law of Constantine, to be the 〈…〉 of ⟨p. 3⟩the change, 1is to make a prop for Prelacy, and a step to Popery, and to open a gap to all humane inventions. For if it be in the Churches power to appoint the greatest Holy day; why may not any other Rite and Ceremony be imposed also? and if it be free to observe this day or not in respect of it selfe, because it wants a divine institution, and yet necessary to observe it in respect of the Churches Custome and constitution (as some pretend) why may not the Chuches Commandment be a rule of obedience in a thousand things else as well as in this? and so introduce Will-Worship, and to serve God after the tradition of men which God abhors?