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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 13.
O here there be who give god the honour of determining ⟨p. 38⟩§13§13the beginning and end of the day, but they cut him short of one half of it, in that they make the Artificial day, or the Day-Light,1 from Sun-rising to Sun-setting, to be the day of his Sabbath. Thus some affirm downright. Others more modestly say, h•t mans conscience ought not to be scrupulous nor trouble it self, if conscientiously give God the honour of the Sabbath day-light, having some general preparations for it the night before, and good affections the night after.
O here there be who give god the honour of determining ⟨p. 38⟩§13§13the beginning and end of the day, but they cut him short of one halfe of it, in that they make the Artificiall day, or the Day-Light,1 from Sun-rising to Sun-setting, to be the day of his Sabbath. Thus some affirm downright. Others more modestly say, h•t mans conscience ought not to be scrupulous nor trouble it selfe, if conscienciously give God the honour of the Sabbath day-light, having some generall preparations for it the night before, and good affections the night after.