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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 12.
If therefore God hath sanctified a set Time, he hath set and §12sanctified the bounds and limits of that Time: and to begin the time when we lift, it may sometime arise from weakness, but usually tis a fruit of looseness of heart, which secretly loves to live as it lists, which would not conform to Gods rule, and therefore will crook and bend the rule to its humour; which will not come up to Gods time, and therefore make God to come down to theirs.
If therefore God hath sanctified a set Time, he hath set and §12sanctified the bounds and limits of that Time: and to begin the time when we lift, it may sometime arise from weaknesse, but usually tis a fruit of loosnesse of heart, which secretly loves to live as it lists, which would not conform to Gods rule, and therefore will crook and bend the rule to its humour; which will not come up to Gods time, and therefore make God to come downe to theirs.