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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 26.
Yet notwithstanding although holy duties on a Day do not argue such a Day to be our Sabbath ▪ yet that Day which is set apart for Sabbath services rather then any other Day, and is honoured above any other Day for that end, surely such a day is the Christian Sabbath. Now, if it may appear that the first Day of the week was thus honoured, then certainly it is to be accounted the Christian Sabbath.
Yet notwithstanding although holy duties on a Day doe not argue such a Day to be our Sabbath ▪ yet that Day which is set apart for Sabbath services rather then any other Day, and is honoured above any other Day for that end, surely such a day is the Christian Sabbath. Now, if it may appear that the first Day of the week was thus honoured, then certainly it is to be accounted the Christian Sabbath.
Thesis 27.
The Primitive pattern Churches thus honoured the fi•st Day of the week; and what they practised without reproof, that the Apostles (who planted those Churches) enjoined and preached unto them so to do; at least in such weighty matters as the Change of Days, of preferring one before that other which the Lord had honoured before; and what the Apostles preached, that the Lord Jesus commanded