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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 89.
To say that this first darkness was part of the morning, and did belong to the morning-light, as now some time of darkness in the the morning is called morning, and therefore is called the womb of the morning, Psal. 110.2. is a mere shift to prove the beginning of time to be in the morning, and an evasion from the evidence of truth. For 1. This first darkness must either be the whole night, consisting as the light did of about twelve hours; and then it cannot possibly be called morning or belong thereunto; or it must be part of the night, and that which came after the light another part of it, and then we may see a monstrous day which hath part of its night before it, and part after it; beside its contrary to the Text, which makes the whole morning together, and the whole evening together, the whole day-light together, and so the whole night together. 2. That darkness which by an improper speech we make to belong to the morning, in our ordinary account, is the latter part of the night or of the darkness; but we read not in all the Scripture, nor is it suitable to any solid reason, to make the first beginning of Night or darkness as part of the morning: Now this first darkness (which is the beginning of darkness) is called night, at least is the beginning of night; and therefore cannot be called morning, but evening rather, as we usually call the first beginning of darkness after day light.
To say that this first darknesse was part of the morning, and did belong to the morning-light, as now some time of darknesse in the the morning is called morning, and therefore is called the womb of the morning,