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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 39.
The second Difficulty now lies in clearing up this particular,§39 viz. That this Day thus sanctified was the first Day of the week, which is therefore the Holy Day of the Lord our God, and consequently, the Christian Sabbath: for this purpose let these ensuing particulars be laid together.
1. That this Day of which John speaks, is a known Day, ⟨p. 28⟩and was generally known in those days by this glorious name of the Lords Day, and therefore the Apostle gives no other title to it but the Lords Day, as a known day in those times; for the Scope of John in this Vision is as in all other Prophetical Visions when they set down the day and time of it, to gain the more credit to the certain•y of it, when every one sees the truth circumstantiated, and they hear of the particular time; and it may seem most absurd to set down the day and time for such an end, and yet the day is not particularly known.
1. That this Day of which Iohn speaks, is a known Day, ⟨p. 28⟩and was generally known in those dayes by this glorious name of the Lords Day, and therefore the Apostle gives no other title to it but the Lords Day, as a known day in those times; for the Scope of Iohn in this Vision is as in all other Prophetical Visions when they set down the day and time of it, to gain the more credit to the certain•y of it, when every one sees the truth circumstantiated, and they heare of the particular time; and it may seem most absurd to set down the day and time for such an end, and yet the day is not particularly known.