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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
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Thesis 20.
Some say the Sabbath is significative of Heaven, and therefore it only comprehends the day light which is fit to signify the lightsome Day of Heaven, which darkness is not: but why may not Night-time signify Heaven as well as Day-time? for Heaven is a place of rest, and the night is the fittest time for rest, after our weary labours in the day. Who teacheth ⟨image 135⟩men thus to allegorize? how easily a thing is it thus to abuse all the Scripture? and yet suppose it should signify Heaven, yet why may not the Sabbath continue the space of a natural as well as of an artificial Day, considering that the natural Day of the World or of both Hemispheres consists only of light, which these men say is significative of Heaven?
Some say the Sabbath is significative of Heaven, and therefore it onely comprehends the day light which is fit to signifie the lightsome Day of Heaven, which darknesse is not: but why may not Night-time signifie Heaven as well as Day-time? for Heaven is a place of rest, and the night is the fittest time for rest, after our weary labours in the day. Who teacheth ⟨image 135⟩men thus to allegorize? how easily a thing is it thus to abuse all the Scripture? and yet suppose it should signifie Heaven, yet why may not the Sabbath continue the space of a naturall as well as of an artificiall Day, considering that the naturall Day of the World or of both Hemispheres consists onely of light, which these men say is significative of Heaven?