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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 19.
The Resurrection of Christ may therefore be one ground, not only of the Sanctification of the Christian Sabbath, but also a sufficient ground of the abrogation of the Jewish Sabbath. For, first, the greater light may darken the less, and a greater work (as the Restoration of the World above the Creation of it) may overshadow the less, Jerem 23.7, 8. Exod. 12.2. Secondly, Mans sin spoiled the first Rest, and therefore the day of it might be justly abrogated. For the horrible wrath of God had been immediately poured out upon man (as might be proved, and as it was upon the lapsed Angels) and consequently upon all Creatures for mans sake, if Christ had not given the Father Rest, for whose sake the world was made, Revel. 4.11. and by whose means and mediation the World continues as now it doth, Joh. 5.22.
The Resurrection of Christ may therefore be one ground, not onely of the Sanctification of the Christian Sabbath, but also a sufficient ground of the abrogation of the Jewish Sabbath. For, first, the greater light may darken the lesse, and a greater work (as the Restoration of the World above the Creation of it) may overshadow the lesse, Ierem 23.7, 8. Exod. 12.2. Secondly, Mans sinne spoyled the first Rest, and therefore the day of it might be justly abogated. For the horrible wrath of God had been immediatly poured out upon man (as might be proved, and as it was upon the lapsed Angels) and consequently upon all Creatures for mans sake, if Christ had not given the Father Rest, for whose sake the world was made,