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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 19.
To affirm that the Sabbath day only comprehends the §19Day-light, because the fi•st Day in Gen. 1 began with morning light: is not only a bad consequence (supposing the ground of it to be true) but the ground and foundation of it is as certainly false, as to say that Darkness is Light; for its evident that the first day in Genesis began with that darkness which God calls Night, Psal. 4.5. and to affirm that the first Day in Genesis 1. begins with morning Light, is as grossly false, as it is apparently true that within six Days the Lord made Heaven and Earth, Ex. 20 11. for before the creating of that Light which God calls Day, the Heavens and with them the Angels, and the Earth or fi•st matter called the Deep, which was overspread with Darkness, were created: either therefore the Lord did not create the World in six Days, or tis untrue that the first day in Genesis began with morning Light: and I wonder upon what grounds this notion should enter into any mans head: for though God calls the light Day and the darkness Night, (as we shall do when speak of the artificial Day) yet withal he called the Evening of the morning the first day; and what was this Evening and Morning? Surely its all that space of time wherein the Lord did his first days ⟨p. 40⟩