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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 32.
It is not said in the first of Genesis that the Morning and the Evening were the first day, as if the day should begin at Morning Midnight: but the Evening and the Morning were the first Day; and therefore its strange that any should derive the beginning of the Sabbath from Morning Midnight out of this Text: The Graecians because they begin the day at the Evening of Sunset. did therefore orderly call their natural day *[Greek or Hebrew] and is it probable that Moses would speak disorderly, & ordine retrogrado here? and not rather according to the interpretation of Daniel, who calls 2300 days by name of Ghne•eb Boker, which signifies Evenings Mornings, because the Evening, not the morning, much less Midnight-Morning is to begin the day, Dan. 14.26.
It is not said in the first of Genesis that the Morning and the Evening were the first day, as if the day should begin at Morning Midnight: but the Evening and the Morning were the first Day; and therefore its strange that any should derive the beginning of the Sabbath from Morning Midnight out of this Text: The Graecians because they begin the day at the Evening of Sunset. did therefore orderly call their naturall day *〈non-Latin alphabet〉 and is it probable that Moses would speake disorderly, & ordine retrogrado here? and not rather according to the interpretation of Daniel, who calls 2300 daies by name of Ghne•eb Boker, which signifies Evenings Mornings, because the Evening, not the morning, much lesse Midnight-Morning is to begin the day, Dan. 14.26.