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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
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Thesis 56.
For first, Mark, who writ after Matthew, and is best able to interpret his words, expressly saith, that the Sabbath was past when the women came to the Sepulchre; his words are [Greek or Hebrew]. The Sabbath being past, Mar. 16. 1. Hence therefore, if Matthews words should be translated, Late on the Sabbath, or towards the end of the Sabbath, then the Sabbath was not already past (as Mark affirms) but drawing toward an end. Mark therefore telling us, that the Sabbath was ended, and yet not telling us when it ended, why should we not Harmonize the Evangelists by Mathews words, which tells us that it was long before? 2. The time of the coming of some of the women to the Sepulchre, as it ⟨p. 53⟩was upon the first day of the week, so it was some time within the night: and hence Mark tells us it was very early, Mark 16.2. which cannot be at the rising of the Sun only when tis said also that they came to the Sepulchre; for that is not [Greek or Hebrew], valde mane, or very early. Again, Luke tells us that it was [Greek or Hebrew], very early or in the depth of the night; for so the word [Greek or Hebrew] frequently signifies the time of the night when Cocks crow. I forbear to instance in Greek Writers, because the Evangelist John clears up this most fully, who expressly saith, that it was [Greek or Hebrew], it being yet dark: and though it be said Mark 16.2. that the women came to the Sepulchre about rising of the Sun; yet Piscator and others interpret that of their last actual coming to it; their preparation for it being very early, while it was yet dark night; and it seems there was two comings by several of them to the Sepulchre: for its evident that Mary (who had most affection) came to the Sepulchre while it was yet dark, the rest of them possibly preparing thereunto. However the Evangelists be reconciled, this is evident, that the first stirring of the women about that work from which they abstained upon the Sabbath day, was very early in the depth of the morning Darkness, before the Day-light, when some would begin the Christian Sabbath: and from hence it follows, 1. That if the Sabbath was not past even before this dark time of the night began, but rather ended when the first day of the week began to dawn: then it will follow, that these holy women did not rest the Sabbath according to the Commandment;