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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 42.
Although the work of redemption be applied unto few in §42respect of the special benefits of it; yet Christ by his death is made Heir and Lord of all things, bring now set down at the right hand of God, and there is some benefit which befalls all the world by Christs Redemption; and the Government of all things is not now in the hand of God as Creator, but in the hand of a Mediator, Heb. 1.1, 2. Heb. 2.8.9. John. 5.22. Colos. 1.16.17. 1 Tim. 4.10. John. 3.35. and hence it is no wonder if all men as well as a few elected, selected and called, be commanded to sanctify the Lords Day, as once they were the Jewish seventh day; the work of Christ being in some respect of as great extent through all the work of Creation as the work of the Father. And therefore it is a great feebleness in Master Brabourne to go about to vilify the work of Redemption, and extol that of Creation above it; and that therefore the Sabbath ought still to be kept in reference to the work of Creation which concerns all men, rather then in respect of Redemption, which he imagines concerneth only some few.