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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 51.
The consideration of this Scripture hath caused some, very judicious, (viz. Beza, Junius and others) who conceive the Sabbath to begin at even, to affirm upon very probable grounds, that there was among the Jews, at this time under their Roman bondage a double account, and reckoning of the days of the week. 1. Civill. 2. Sacred account. According to sacred account (they say) the Church of God began their Sabbath at Evening, not Morning, which they demonstrate from sundry pregnant Texts in the old and new Testament; but according to the civill account of the Romans who gave the precedency to the Morning before the Evening, they begun it therefore in the Morning, and according to this latter account they suppose the Evangelists to speak.
The consideration of this Scripture hath caused some, very judicious, (viz. Beza, Iunius and others) who conceive the Sabbath to begin at even, to affirm upon very probable grounds, that there was among the Iews, at this time under their Roman bondage a double account, and reckoning of the dayes of the week. 1. Civill. 2. Sacred account. According to sacred account (they say) the Church of God began their Sabbath at Evening, not Morning, which they demonstrate from sundry pregnant Texts in the old and new Testament; but according to the civill account of the Romans who gave the precedency to the Morning before the Evening, they begun it therefore in the Morning, and according to this latter account they suppose the Evangelists to speak.