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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 14.
A divine law may be said to be moral two ways, 1. More largely and generally moral. 2. More strictly and specially moral.
A divine law may be said to be morall two wayes, 1. More largely and generally morall. 2. More strictly and specially morall.
Thesis 15.
A law generally moral is this, that the whole sovereign will of the Lord be done and submitted unto by every creature; and in this large sense every law of God whether ceremonial, judicial, or for special trial, may be said to be moral, because the sovereign will of God is in all these laws to be adored: It is a moral duty that Gods will be done, and hence it is that so far forth as the will of God is in them, so far forth to yield obedience to them is a moral duty, but the question is not about this morality, nor what things are thus moral.
A law generally morall is this, that the whole soveraign will of the Lord be done and submitted unto by every creature; and in this large sense every law of God whether ceremoniall, judiciall, or for speciall triall, may be said to be morall, because the soveraigne will of God is in all these lawes to be adored: It is a morall duty that Gods will be done, and hence it is that so far forth as the will of God is in them, so far forth to yield obedience to them is a morall duty, but the question is not about this morality, nor what things are thus morall.