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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 30.
Some would prove the Sabbath to begin at Midnight because §30Christ arose at Midnight, and he arose at Midnight because Sampson a Type of Christ carried away the gates of Gaza at midnight, Judg. 16, 3. but such allegorical reasonings were fit tools for blind Monks in former times to delude the simple people with; I suppose men are wiser now then to be fed with wind and chaff, and to build their faith upon cozening allegories of humane wit, by which as the blind Monks of old did feed the people, so the Familists now deceive the world: both which are the fruits of Gods heavy curse upon their hearts, who because they did not love the truth to seed upon it, are therefore fed with vanity of mind.
Some would prove the Sabbath to begin at Midnight because §30Christ arose at Midnight, and he arose at Midnight because Sampson a Type of Christ carried away the gates of Gaza at midnight, Iudg. 16, 3. but such allegoricall reasonings were fit tooles for blind Monkes in former times to delude the simple people with; I suppose men are wiser now then to be fed with wind and chaffe, and to build their faith upon cozening allegories of humane wit, by which as the blind Monkes of old did feede the people, so the Familists now deceive the world: both which are the fruits of Gods heavy curse upon their hearts, who because they did not love the truth to seed upon it, are therefore fed with vanity of mind.