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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 86.
Nor is it true in Divinity that the darkness and light were at first separated into two Hemispheres; or if they were, yet what orthodox Writer affirms that the supposed separated darkness only is called Night?
Nor is it true in Divinity that the darkenesse and light were at first separated into two Hemispheres; or if they were, yet what orthodox Writer affirmes that the supposed separated darkenesse onely is called Night?
Thesis 87.
For look as the darkness did overspread the whole Chaos ▪ and all the dimensions of it at the same time; why might not the light the habit be extended as far as was the privation before, and that at the same time? there being no globe or dense body of earth and waters (existing as now they do) at that time created, and consequently no opaque and solid body to divide between light and darkness and so to separate them into two Hemispheres, as by this means it is at this day, unless we imagine miracles without necessity; and that God then miraculously did it when there was no necessity of it. For the Element of fire being figuratively called light, it being (as Junius shows) proprietas essentials ignis; being also created in