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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.
1. Although it be true, that in some cases Collections may be made any day for the poor Saints; yet why doth the Apostle here limit them to this day for the performance of this Duty? they that translate [Greek or Hebrew] upon one day of the week, do miserably mistake the phrase, which in Scripture ⟨p. 24⟩phrase only signifies the first day of it, and beat their foreheads against the main Scope of the Apostle, viz. to fix a certain day for such a Duty as required such a certain time: For, they might (by this translation) Collect their Benevolences one day in four or ten years, for then it should be done one day in a week.
1. Although it be true, that in some cases Collections may be made any day for the poore Saints; yet why doth the Apostle here limit them to this day for the performance of this Duty? they that translate 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 upon one day of the week, do miserably mistake the phrase, which in Scripture ⟨p. 24⟩phrase onely signifies the first day of it, and beat their forheads against the maine Scope of the Apostle, viz. to fixe a certaine day for such a Duty as required such a certaine time: For, they might (by this translation) Collect their Benevolences one day in foure or ten yeers, for then it should be done one day in a week.
2: The Apostle doth not only limit them to this time, but also all the Churches of Galatia, verse. 1. and consequently all other Churches if that be true, 2 Cor. 8.13, 14. wherein the Apostle professeth he presseth not one Church, that he may ease another Church, but that there be an equality: and although I see no ground from this Text, that the maintenance of the Ministry should be raised every Sabbath day (for Christ would not have them reckoned among the poor, being labourers worthy of their Hire) and although this Collection was for the poor Saints of other Churches, yet the proportion strongly holds, that if there be ordinary cause of such Collections in every particular Church, these Collections should be made the first day of the week, much more carefully and religiously for the poor of ones own Church; and that in all the Churches of Christ Jesus to the end of the world.