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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.
The general Contents concerning the Beginning of the Sabbath.
The generall Contents concerning the Beginning of the Sabbath.
1. Five several Opinions concerning the beginning of the Sabbath, Thesis 2. 2. The time for beginning of the Sabbath not according to the various customs of divers Nations, Thesis 3. 3. The time of the Artificial day not the beginning and end of the Sabbath as it begins and ends, Thesis 13. 4. The beginning of the Sabbath not midnight, Thesis 28. 5. The morning doth not begin the Sabbath, Thesis 48. 6. That place of Mat. 28.1. usually alleged for the beginning of it in the morning, cleared, Thesis 50. 7. The Resurrection of Christ not aimed at by the Evangelists to be made the beginning of the day, although it be of the change of it, Thesis 58. 8. John 20 19. cleared, Thesis 59. 9. Pauls preaching till midnight no argument of the beginning of the Sabbath in the morning, Thesis 64. 10. The various acception of the word Day and Morrow, to answer many proofs alleged for beginning the Sabbath in the morning, Thesis 68. 11. Some that hold in the beginning of the Sabbath was from Even to Even until Christs Resurrection, and then the time was changed, confuted, Thesis 69, 70. 12. There is not the like reason for the Sabbath to begin at the first moment of Christs entrance into his rest, as for the first Sabbath at the beginning of Fathers rest, Thesis 71. 13 The reasons for the Change of the day are not the same for the change of the beginning of the day, Thesis 73. 14. The conceived fitness for the beginning of the Sabbath in the morning rather then in the evening is a vanity, Thesis 75. 15. The Evening begins the Christian Sabbath, Thesis 76. 16. The place