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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 70.
1. Consid. That the foundation of this opinion is exceeding §70rotten, viz. That the day must not begin, until that work which occasions the change doth actually exist. But we know that the Passover began before the work which did occasion it, did actually exist, viz. the Angels passing over the Israelites at midnight, Exod. 12.29. with 12, 13, 14. and 6.8. indeed the Christian Sabbath day is not before the day of Christ Resurrection; yet the beginning of this day may be before the beginning of the Resurrection, as it was in the Passover.
1. Consid. That the foundation of this opinion is exceeding §70rotten, viz. That the day must not begin, untill that work which occasions the change doth actually exist. But we know that the Passeover began before the work which did occasion it, did actually exist, viz. the Angels passing over the Israelites at midnight, Exod. 12.29. with 12, 13, 14. and 6.8. indeed the Christian Sabbath day is not before the day of Christ Resurrection; yet the beginning of this day may be before the beginning of the Resurrection, as it was in the Passeover.
2. Consid. That if any of the Evangelists had intended a new beginning of the Sabbath at morning, that they would then have set down the exact time of the Lords Resurrection; but none of them do this; they set down the time of other things to prove that Christ was risen, but not the exact time of the Resurrection, for its wholly uncertain; certain it is, that it was before Day-light began; for Mary came and found him risen while it was yet dark,