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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
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Thesis 85.
Suppose also that light and darkness are contraria privantia, yet 'tis not true either in Philosophy or Divinity, that the habit must alway actually go before the privation in the same subject; for the privation may be first if it be in subjecto capaci; i. e. In a subject capable of the habit; for silence may be before speech in a man, and blindness and deafness in a man who never saw nor heard a word, because man is a subject capable of both, and so here darkness might be before light, because this subject of the first matter was capable of both.
Suppose also that light and darknesse are contraria privantia, yet 'tis not true either in Philosophy or Divinity, that the habit must alway actually goe before the privation in the same subject; for the privation may be first if it be in subjecto capaci; i. e. In a subject capable of the habit; for silence may be before speech in a man, and blindnesse and deafenesse in a man who never saw nor heard a word, because man is a subject capable of both, and so here darknesse might be before light, because this subject of the first matter was capable of both.