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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 4.
The observation of the first day of the week for the §4Christian Sabbath ariseth from the force of the fourth Commandment, as strongly as the observation of the media cultus, or means of worship now under the New Testament, doth from the force of the second Commandment; only let this be supposed, that the day is now changed (as we shall hereafter prove) as also that the worship it self is changed by divine institution; for Gospel-institutions when they be appointed by divine and sovereign Authority, yet they may then be observed and practised by virtue of some moral Law. The Gospel appointed new Sacraments, but we are to use them by virtue of the second Commandment: so here the Gospel appoints a new seventh day for the Sabbath, but it stands by virtue of the fourth Commandment: and therefore the observation of it is not an Act of Christian Liberty, but of Christian duty imposed by divine Authority and by virtue of the moral Law.
The observation of the first day of the weeke for the §4Christian Sabbath ariseth from the force of the fourth Commandment, as strongly as the observation of the media cultus, or means of worship now under the New Testament, doth from the force of the second Commandment; only let this be supposed, that the day is now changed (as we shall hereafter prove) as also that the worship it self is changed by divine institution; for Gospel-institutions when they be appointed by divine and soveraign Authority, yet they may then be observed and practised by vertue of some morall Law. The Gospel appointed new Sacraments, but we are to use them by vertue of the second Commandment: so here the Gospel appoints a new seventh day for the Sabbath, but it stands by vertue of the fourth Commandment: and therefore the observation of it is not an Act of Christian Liberty, but of Christian duty imposed by divine Authrity and by vertue of the moral Law.