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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 65.
Nor will it follow that the Sabbath begins in the Morning,§65 because the Morning is set before the Night in the Psalm for the Sabbath, Psal. 92.1, 2. for 1. The scope of the Psalmist is not to set forth when the Sabbath begins: but how it is to be sanctified, and that is, not only by showing forth the loving kindness of God every Morning or day time (for that perhaps, many will readily do) but also in the Night, when men may think it too unseasonable or too late: and therefore in a holy gradation from the less to the greater, he first makes mention of the Morning. 2. The Hebrew word for every Night, is, in the Nights; and therefore (suppose that this Psalm is specially appliable to the Sabbath, which we know some question) yet this place will as soon evince the Sabbath to begin in the Night before the Morning, and to be continued in sweet affections the night after, as that it should begin in the Morning and be continued the night after; so that this place will not clear this cause, nor is there any weight in such kind of reasoning•.
Nor will it follow that the Sabbath begins in the Morning,§65 because the Morning is set before the Night in the Psalm for the Sabbath, Psal. 92.1, 2. for 1. The scope of the Psalmist is not to set forth when the Sabbath begins: but how it is to be sanctified, and that is, not onely by shewing forth the loving kindnesse of God every Morning or day time (for that perhaps, many will readily do) but also in the Night, when men may think it too unseasonable or too late: and therefore in a holy gradation from the lesse to the greater, he first makes mention of the Morning. 2. The Hebrew word for every Night, is, in the Nights; and therefore (suppose that this Psalm is specially applyable to the Sabbath, which we know some question) yet this place will as soon evince the Sabbath to begin in the Night before the Morning, and to be continued in sweet affections the night after, as that it should begin in the Morning and be continued the night after; so that this place will not clear this cause, nor is there any weight in such kind of reasoning.