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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 77.
If the Jewish Sabbath did begin and end at Evening, which was the last day of the Week, then the Christian Sabbath the First day of the week which immediately succeeds the last, is to begin at Evening also; •f the Sabbath in the fi•st Institution began at Evening, why should not the Christian Sabbath be conformed as near as may be to the first institution? but we see out of Gen. 1. That as all other days began at the Evening or dark night, so it was not orderly or possible according to the moral rule God acted by, that the Sabbath should begin upon any other Time then the Evening, nor is it improbable but that Ezekiel foretells this that in the Christian Church, as the Gate for the Sabbath should not be shut until the Evening, Ezek. 46.1, 2. so by just proportion the time for opening of it, was the Evening before, when the Sabbath began.
If the Jewish Sabbath did begin and end at Evening, which was the last day of the Weeke, then the Christian Sabbath the First day of the weeke which immediately succeeds the last, is to begin at Evening also; •f the Sabbath in the fi•st Institution began at Evening, why should not the Christian Sabbath be conformed as neere as may be to the first institution? but we see out of Gen. 1. That as all other daies began at the Evening or darke night, so it was not orderly or possible according to the morall rule God acted by, that the Sabbath should begin upon any other Time then the Evening, nor is it improbable but that Ezekiel fortells this that in the Christian Church, as the Gate for the Sabbath should not be shut untill the Evening,