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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 17.
The fourth commandment gives in the reason why God sanctified the seventh day from the Creation, viz. because God rested on that day, and as it is in Exod. 31.17. was refreshed in it, that is, took a complacency and delight ⟨p. 9⟩in his […] so done and so finished. But the sin of man in falling from his first Creation, made God repent that ever he made man, Gen. 6. and consequently the world for man, and therefore it took off that complacency or rest and refreshing in this his work; if therefore the Lord betake himself to work a new work, new Creation or Renovation of all things in and by his Son, in which he will for ever Rest, may not the day of his rest be then justly changed into the first of seven, on which day his rest in his new work began, whereof he will never repent? If the Lord vary his rest, may not be vary the time and day of it,? nay must not the time and day of our rest be varied, because the ground of Gods rest in a new work is changed?
The fourth commandment gives in the reason why God sanctified the seventh day from the Creation, viz. because God rested on that day, and as it is in Exod. 31.17. was refreshed in it, that is, took a complacency and delight ⟨p. 9⟩