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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 11.
No action of Christ doth of it self sanctify any time; for if it did, why should we not then keep as many Holy days every year as we find holy actions of Christ recorded in Scripture, as the superstitious Crew of blind Papists do at this day? But if God who is the Lord of time shall sanctify any such day or time wherein any such action is done, such a day then is to be kept holy; and therefore if the will of God hath sanctified the day of Christs Resurrection, we may lawfully sanctify the same day; and therefore Mr. Brabourne doth us wrong, as if we made the Resurrection of Christ, merely to be the cause of the change of this day.
No action of Christ doth of it selfe sanctifie any time; for if it did, why should we not then keepe as many Holy dayes every year as we find holy actions of Christ recorded in Scripture, as the superstitious Crew of blind Papists do at this day? But if God who is the Lord of time shall sanctifie any such day or time wherein any such action is done, such a day then is to be kept holy; and therefore if the will of God hath sanctified the day of Christs Resurrection, we may lawfully sanctify the same day; and therefore Mr. Brabourne doth us wrong, as if we made the Resurrection of Christ, meerly to be the cause of the change of this day.