A59693:613
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 9.
The reason why the Lord should depose the last seventh, and exalt and crown the first of seven to be the day §9of the Christian Sabbath, is not so well considered, and therefore to be here narrowly examined. For as for those Eastern Christians, who in the primitive times observed two Sabbaths in a week, the Jewish and the Christian, doubtless their milk sod over, and their zeal went beyond the Rule. The number of Jews who were believers, and yet too too zealous of their old customs, we know, did fill those places in their dispersion and before more then the Western and more remote parts, and therefore they might more powerfully infect those in the East; and they to gain or keep them, might more readily comply with them. Let us therefore see into the reason• of this change from one seventh unto another.
The reason why the Lord should depose the last seventh, and exalt and crowne the first of seven to be the day §9of the Christian Sabbath, is not so well considered, and therefore to be here narrowly examined. For as for those Easterne Christians, who in the primitive times observed two Sabbaths in a week, the Jewish and the Christian, doubtlesse their milke sod over, and their zeale went beyond the Rule. The number of Jewes who were beleevers, and yet too too zealous of their old customes, we know, did fill those places in their dispersion and before more then the Westerne and more remote parts, and therefore they might more powerfully infect those in the East; and they to gaine or keep them, might more readily comply with them. Let us therfore see into the reason• of this change from one seventh unto another.