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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 15.
Whether our Saviour appointed that first individual day of his resurrection to be the first Christian Sabbath, is somewhat difficult to determine; and I would not tie knots and leave them for others to unloose; This only I aim at, that although the first individual day of Christs Resurrection should not possibly be the first individual Sabbath, yet still the Resurrection of Christ is the ground of the institution of the Sabbath, which one consideration dasheth all those devices of some mens Heads, who puzzle their Readers with many intricacies and difficulties, in showing that the first day of Christs Resurrection could not be the first Sabbath, and thence would infer that the day of his Resurrection, was not the ground of the institution of the Sabbath, which inference is most false; for it was easy with Christ to make that great work on this day to be the ground of the institution of it, some time after that work was Past.
Whether our Saviour appointed that first individuall day of his resurrection to be the first Christian Sabbath, is somewhat difficult to determine; and I would not tie knots and leave them for others to unloose; This only I aime at, that although the first individuall day of Christs Resurrection should not possibly be the first individuall Sabbath, yet still the Resurrection of Christ is the ground of the institution of the Sabbath, which one consideration dasheth all those devices of some mens Heads, who puzzle their Readers with many intricacies and difficulties, in shewing that the first day of Christs Resurrection could not be the first Sabbath, and thence would inferre that the day of his Resurrection, was not the ground of the institution of the Sabbath, which infer•nce is most false; for it was easie with Christ to make that great worke on this day to be the ground of the institution of it, some time after that work was Past.