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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 88.
But suppose this local separation into two Hemispheres was §88granted, yet it will not follow from hence that this separated darkness only is called night, and that the darkness before was no part of it: for if the day and night began at the imagined division of light and darkness, then (this division being in an instant of time) neither could the day be before the night, nor the night before the day, but both exist and begin together; and then it will follow that the beginning of the first day was neither in the morning nor evening, in darkness nor light, in night nor day; but that it began in the morning and evening, day-light and dark night, together; which is too gross for any wise man to affirm, nor would the God of Order do it. Again, if the first darkness which was preexistent to this Hemispherical light and darkness was no part of the night, then much less was ⟨p. 70⟩it any part of the first day-light; and so no part of the natural day; which if any should affirm, they must deny the creation of the world in six days; for its evident that the Heavens and Earth were made in the time of the first darkness.
But suppose this locall separation into two Hemispheres was §88granted, yet it will not follow from hence that this separated darknesse onely is called night, and that the darkenesse before was no part of it: for if the day and night began at the imagined division of light and darknesse, then (this division being in an instant of time) neither could the day be before the night, nor the night before the day, but both exist and begin together; and then it will follow that the beginning of the first day was neither in the morning nor evening, in darknesse nor light, in night nor day; but that it began in the morning and evening, day-light and dark night, together; which is too grosse for any wise man to affirm, nor would the God of Order do it. Againe, if the first darkenesse which was preexistent to this Hemisphericall light and darknesse was no part of the night, then much lesse was