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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 23.
To imagine that the Sabbath must be contained within §23the bounds of Daylight, because Christ Jesus arose at break of day, Mat. 28.1. is of no more force then as if one should conclude the containment of it within the bounds of some darkness, and twilight; for its evident that he arose about that time.
To imagine that the Sabbath must be contained within §23the bounds of Daylight, because Christ Iesus arose at breake of day, Mat. 28.1. is of no more force then as if one should conclude the containment of it within the bounds of some darknesse, and twylight; for its evident that he arose about that time.
Thesis, 24.
There is no more necessity of sanctifying a day and a half §24by beginning the day at Evening, then by beginning it at Morning light (for thus some argue) for what is said of the Evening of both Hemispheres, that the second Evening would begin 12 hours after the first, if the Sabbath was sanctified to begin at the Evening of both Hemispheres, and so there would be a day and half sanctified; the like (I say) may be averred of the morning, supposing that both Hemispheres