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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.
4. If this day had not been more holy and more fit for this work of Love then any other day, he durst not have limited them to this Day, nor durst he have honoured this Day above any other in the week, yea above the Jewish seventh Day. For we see the very Apostle tender alway of Christian Liberty, and not to bind were the Lord leaves his people free: for thus doing he should rather make snares then Laws for Churches, 1 Cor. 7.27.35. and go expressly against his own Doctrine, Galat. 5.1. who bids them stand fast in their Liberty, and that in this very point of the observation of days, Galat. 4.10. But what fitness was there on this Day for such a service? Consider therefore.
4. If this day had not been more holy and more fit for this work of Love then any other day, he durst not have limited them to this Day, nor durst he have honoured this Day above any other in the weeke, yea above the Iewish seventh Day. For we see the very Apostle tender alway of Christian Liberty, and not to binde were the Lord leaves his people free: for thus doing he should rather make snares then Lawes for Churches, 1 Cor. 7.27.35. and go expressely against his own Doctrine, Galat. 5.1. who bids them stand fast in their Liberty, and that in this very point of the observation of dayes, Galat. 4.10. But what fitnesse was there on this Day for such a service? Consider therefore.
5. That the Apostle doth not in this place immediately appoint and institute the Sabbath, but supposeth it to be so already