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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 21.
If the question be, what Type is affixed and annexed to the Sabbath? I think it difficult to find out, although mans wanton wit can easily allegorize and readily frame imaginations enough in this point. Some thing it typified Christs Rest in the grave; but I fear this will not hold, no more then many other Popish conjectures, wherein their allegorizing Postillers abound. Bullinger and some others think that it was Typical in respect of the peculiar Sacrifices annexed to it, which Sacrifices were Types of Christ, Numb, 28.9. And although much might be said for this against that which Mr. Brabourne replies, yet I see nothing cogent in this; for the multiplying ⟨p. 12⟩of Sacrifice (which were […]) on this Day proves rather a specialty of worshipping God more abundantly on this Day, then any Ceremonialnesse in it; for if the offering of Sacrifices merely, should make a day Ceremonial, why did it not make every Day Ceremonial in respect of every days offering of the Morning and Evening Sacrifice? Some think that our Rest upon the Sabbath (not God the Fathers Rest, as Mr. Brabourne turns it) was made not only a resemblance, but also a Type of our Rest in Christ, of which the Apostle speaks, Heb. 4.3. which is therefore called a Sabbatism, v•r. 9. or a keeping of a Sabbath at the word signifies. What others would infer from this place to make the Sabbath to be merely Ceremonial: and what Mr. Brabourne would answer from hence, that it is not at all Ceremonial, may both of them be easily answered here again as already they have been in some of the former Theses. Some scruples I see not yet through about this text, enforce me herein to be silent, and therefore to leave it to such as think they may defend it, as one ground of some affixed Type unto the Jewish Sabbath.