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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 5.
For the morality of the fourth Commandment (as hath §5been proved) being preserved in observing not that Sabbath only, nor yet a Sabbath merely when man sees meet: but in observing the Sabbath, i. e. such a Sabbath as is determined and appointed of God, (which may therefore be either the first or last of the seven days) Hence it is that the first of the seven, if it be determined and instituted of God under the New Testament, ariseth equally from the fourth Commandment, as the last seventh day did under the old Testament; and therefore it is no such piaculum nor delusion of the common People, as Mr. Brabourne would make it, to put the Title of the Lords Sabbath upon the Lords day, and to call it the Sabbath day; for if it be borne out of the same womb the first seventh was, if it arise (I mean) from the same Commandment, ⟨p. 4⟩Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day; why may it not bear the name of the Sabbath n•w, as the first-born did in former times?
For the morality of the fourth Commandment (as hath §5been proved) being preserved in observing not that Sabbath only, nor yet a Sabbath meerly when man sees meet: but in observing the Sabbath, i. e. such a Sabbath as is determined and appointed of God, (which may therefore be either the first or last of the seven dayes) Hence it is that the first of the seven, if it be determined and instituted of God under the New Testament, ariseth equally from the fourth Commandment, as the last seventh day did under the old Testament; and therefore it is no such piaculum nor delusion of the common People, as Mr. Brabourne would make it, to put the Title of the Lords Sabbath upon the Lords day, and to call it the Sabbath day; for if it be borne out of the same wombe the first seventh was, if it arise (I mean) from the same Commandment,