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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 1.
ITS a holy labour (saith one) to enquire §1after the Beginning of holy Rest. The Sabbath cannot be so sweetly sanctified unless we know the time when to begin and end it the different apprehensions of such as have inquired after the Truth in this particular, have mad way for the more clear and distinct knowledge of it; it being the privilege of truth to be more purified and shine the brighter by passing thorough the heats and fires of mens contentions and disputations.
ITS a holy labour (saith one) to enquire §1after the Beginning of holy Rest. The Sabbath cannot be so sweetly sanctified unlesse we know the time when to begin and end it the different apprehensions of such as have inquired after the Truth in this particular, have mad way for the more clear and distinct knowledge of it; it being the priviledge of truth to be more purified and shine the brighter by passing thorough the heats and fires of mens contentions and disputations.