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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 82.
But was ever any punctum temporis (which is thought to be §82no part of time) called by the name of Night as this darkness is? Gen. 1.4, 5. with 2. Was the World made in six days and is there a Heaven and Earth made within the time of this darkness, and yet this time of darkness to be no part of time, but only a Mathematical point, but no real part of succeeding Time? Zanchy long since hath largely confuted and crushed this Egg-shell, where the Reader may look; there was not indeed any Celestial motion of the Heavens to measure this Time by, (for Master Weemes objects tempus est mensura motus) but by this Argument there was no Time till the fourth day, when the Sun and Stars were created, nor is Time properly mensura mo•us, but as Eternity is the indeterminate duration of a thing together, so Time is the determinate duration of things by succession: which was evidently since Time began on the first moment of creation.
But was ever any punctum temporis (which is thought to be §82no part of time) called by the name of Night as this darkenesse is? Gen. 1.4, 5. with 2. Was the World made in six dayes and is there a Heaven and Earth made within the time of this darkenesse, and yet this time of darkenesse to be no part of time, but onely a Mathematicall point, but no reall part of succeeding Time? Zanchy long since hath largely confuted and crusht this Egge-shell, where the Reader may looke; there was not indeed any Celestiall motion of the Heavens to measure this Time by, (for Master Weemes objects tempus est mensura motus) but by this Argument there was no Time till the fourth day, when the Sun and Starrs were created, nor is Time properly mensura mous, but as Eternity is the indeterminate duration of a thing together, so Time is the determinate duration of things by succession: which was evidently since Time began on the first moment of creation.