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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
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Thesis 40.
Hence therefore it follows, that although this particular §40seventh day, which is the first of seven, be not particularly made mention of in the fourth Commandment; yet the last ⟨p. 30⟩of seven being abrogated, and this being instituted in its room, it is therefore to be perpetuated and observed in its room. For though it be true (as Mr. Brabourne urgeth) That New Institutions cannot be founded, no not by Analogy of proportion, merely upon Old Institutions; as because children were Circumcised, it will not follow that they are therefore to be baptized: and so because the Jews kept that seventh day, that we may therefore keep the first day. Yet this is certain, that when New things are instituted not by humane Analogy, but by Divine appointment, the Application of these may stand by virtue of old precepts and general Rules, from whence the Application even of old Institutions formerly arose. For we know that the Cultus institutu• in the New Testament in Ministry and Sacraments, stands at this day by virtue of the second Commandment, as well as the instituted worship under the Old. And though Baptism stands not by virtue of the institution of Circumcision, yet it being De novo instituted by Christ as the Seal of Initiation into Christs mystical Body, 1 Cor. 12.12. it now stands by virtue of that general Rule by which Circumcision it self was administered, viz That the Seal of initiation into Christs Body be applied to all the visible members of that Body: and hence children are to be now Baptized, as once they were Circumcised, being members of Christs Body. So the first day of the week being instituted to be the Lords Day or Lords Sabbath, hence it follows that if the first seventh which is now abrogated, was once observed, because it was the Lords Sabbath or the Sabbath Day which God appointed; by the very same Rule, and on the very same ground we also are bound to keep this first day being also the Sabbath of the Lord our God, which he hath now appointed anew under the New Testament.