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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 84.
But this arguing is almost against the express Letter of the Text, Gen. 1. wherein it is most evident that light was created, after darkness had bin some time upon the face of the deep; which darkness cannot be part of the Day-light, no more then blindness is a part of sight and therefore is a part of the Night, before this conceived separated darkness could exist. Beside the separation of darkness from light doth not make any new darkness which is a new denominated darkness, but is the same darkness which was at first, only the separation is a new placing of it, but it gives no new being to it.
But this arguing is almost against the expresse Letter of the Text, Gen. 1. wherein it is most evident that light was created, after darknesse had bin some time upon the face of the deepe; which darknesse cannot be part of the Day-light, no more then blindnesse is a part of sight and therefore is a part of the Night, before this conceived separated darkenesse could exist. Beside the separation of darknesse from light doth not make any new darkenesse which is a new denominated darkenesse, but is the same darkenesse which was at first, onely the separation is a new placeing of it, but it gives no new being to it.