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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 17.
If Nehemiah shut the gates of the City when it began to be dark least that night time should be profaned by bearing burdens in it,1 then certainly the time of night was sanctified of God as well as the day; to say that this act was but a just preparation for the Sabbath, is said without proof: for, if God ⟨p. 39⟩allows men six days and nights to labour in, what equity can there be in forbidding all servile work a whole night together which God hath allowed man for labour? and although we ought to make preparation for the Sabbath, yet the time and measure of it is left to each mans Christian liberty; but for a civill Magistrate to impose twelve hours preparation for the Sabbath, is surely both against Christian liberty, and Gods allowance also: Again, Nehemiah did this, lest the men of Tyre should occasion the Jews to break the Sabbath day by bringing in wares upon that night; so as if that night therefore had not been part of the Sabbath, they could not ther••y provoke the Jews to profane the Sabbath day, by which Nehemiah tells them they had provoked the wrath of God.
If Nehemiah shut the gates of the City when it began to be dark least that night time should be prophaned by bearing burdens in it,1 then certainly the time of night was sanctified of God as well as the day; to say that this act was but a just preparation for the Sabbath, is said without proofe: for, if God ⟨p. 39⟩