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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 76.
If therefore the Sabbath doth not begin, neither according ⟨p. 66⟩to the custom of civill nations, nor at midnight, nor Morning, what Time then must it begin at (from any colour of Scripture,) but only in the Evening? at Evening therefore after the setting of the Light of the body of the Sun, wherein darkness begins to be predominant over the Light the Sabbath begins now, as the Jewish Sabbath began in former Times, and here let me say that old Testament proofs may be in this as in many other things, New Testament rules.
If therefore the Sabbath doth not begin, neither according ⟨p. 66⟩to the custome of civill nations, nor at midnight, nor Morning, what Time then must it begin at (from any colour of Scripture,) but onely in the Evening? at Evening therefore after the setting of the Light of the body of the Sun, wherein darknesse begins to be predominant over the Light the Sabbath begins now, as the Iewish Sabbath began in former Times, and here let me say that old Testament proofes may be in this as in many other things, New Testament rules.