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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 25.
There are therefore four rules to guide our judgments §25aright herein, whereby we may know when a law is suitable and agreeable to humane nature, and consequently good in it self; which will be sufficient to clear up the Law of the Sabbath, to be truly moral (whether in a higher or lower degree of morality it makes no matter) and that it is not a law merely temporary and ceremonial.
There are therefore four rules to guide our judgments §25aright herein, whereby we may know when a law is sutable and agreeable to humane nature, and consequently good in it selfe; which will bee sufficient to cleare up the Law of the Sabbath, to be truely morall (whether in a higher or lower degree of morality it makes no matter) and that it is not a law meerly temporary and ceremoniall.
1. Such laws as necessarily flow from natural relation, both between God and man, as well as between man and man; these are good in themselves, because suitable and congruous to humane nature: for there is a decency and sweet comeliness to attend to those rules to which our relations bind us. For from this ground the Prophet Malachi calls for fear and honour of God as moral duties, because they are so comely and seemly for us, in respect of ⟨p. 16⟩the relation between us, If I be your Lord, and Master and Father, where is my fear? where is my honour?