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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 28.
Others allow the Lord his whole time, but they think that he hath fixed the beginning of it at the gates of midnight,1 which Midnight they call morning or Morning Midnight, or midnight Morning, and therefore they imagine out of Gen. 1. that the Morning was half Night wherein time began, and half, Day; six hours Night from midnight to six, and six hours day from six to midday: and by the same proportion, the Evening to begin at midday, and so to continue six hours Day from 12 to six, and six hours Night from six to midnight, and therefore they say that God is said to stretch ⟨p. 43⟩the North upon the empty, Job. 26.7. because first beginning of the notion of time began from the North point, when darkness was first upon the face of the deep, and from this North point in the Revolution of the Heavens we do account it midnight, as being opposite to the South which in the course of the Sun is at midday: and therefore also (they say) that Evening is never taken in all the Scripture for the whole Night: but as Evening begins at Midday so Morning begins at Midnight.
Others allow the Lord his whole time, but they thinke that he hath fixed the beginning of it at the gates of midnight,1 which Midnight they call morning or Morning Midnight, or midnight Morning, and therefore they imagine out of