A59693:724
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 3.
Some there be who make the Time mutable and various; §3affirming,1 that God hath not fixed any set time, or that he stands upon, or would have his people troubled with such Niceties; so long as the day be observed (say they) it is no matter when it be begun: nor do they make this variation to be according to that which God allows (suppose from Sun to ⟨p. 36⟩Sun, sooner or later as the time of the year is) but according to the civill customs of several Nations, as they variously begin or end their days among whom they live; as suppose they live among Romans, (they think) they may begin it at midnight; if with Babylonians, at Sun-rising; if among Grecians, at Sun-set; if among Umbrians and Arabians, at mid-day.
Some there be who make the Time mutable and various; §3affirming,1 that God hath not fixed any set time, or that he stands upon, or would have his people troubled with such Niceties; so long as the day be observed (say they) it is no matter when it be begun: nor do they make this variation to be according to that which God allows (suppose from Sun to ⟨p. 36⟩Sun, sooner or later as the time of the yeere is) but according to the civill customs of severall Nations, as they variously begin or end their daies among whom they live; as suppose they live among Romans, (they think) they may begin it at midnight; if with Babylonians, at Sun-rising; if among Grecians, at Sun-set; if among Umbrians and Arabians, at mid-day.