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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 25.
If Evening, Morning, light and night, made up every day the Creation, why shall we think but that the Sabbath day also consisted of the same parts? and if the whole world was made in six Days, and these Days be only such as consist of Day-light, when then was the third Heaven and Chaos made which did exist before light? those Fathers and Schoolmen who set such narrow bounds to the Day, had need consider of it, least their answer be like his who hearing a simple Preacher desiring the continuance of the life of the King so long as Sun and Moon endured? and being asked, if that should be so when should his son reign? he replied, it may be the Preacher thought that he might rule by Candle-light.
If Evening, Morning, light and night, made up every day the Creation, why shall we think but that the Sabbath day also consisted of the same parts? and if the whole world was made in six Daies, and these Daies be only such as consist of Day-light, when then was the third Heaven and Chaos made which did exist before light? those Fathers and Schoolemen who set such narrow bounds to the Day, had need consider of it, least their answer be like his who hearing a simple Preacher desiring the continuance of the life of the King so long as Sun and Moone endured? and being askt, if that should be so when should his son raigne? he replyed, it may be the Preacher thought that he might rule by Candle-light.