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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 91.
To imagine (as some do) That the ordinary Sabbath began at §91another time, because here God makes a new command, that it be from even to even, in opposition to the other Sabbaths beginning; and that otherwise it had been enough to say, You shall celebrate this day as a Sabbath: one may from the same ground imagine, that in other Sabbaths they might do any servile work, because here also […] are forbidden it; for it may be as well said, that other […] had been enough to say, You shall sanctify this day as you do other Sabbaths: here therefore is no new institution of time from the beginning of the Sabbath, but of a new Ordinance, together with the application of time according to common and ordinary account: and the Lord expresseth from even to even (which makes up a natural day) left mans heart (which is soon weary of duties of Humiliation) should interpret it of an artificial day; to prevent which mistake the Lord had good reason to set the distinct bounds of it from even to even.
To imagine (as some do) That the ordinary Sabbath began at §91another time, because here God makes a new command, that it be from even to even, in opposition to the other Sabbaths beginning; and that otherwise it had been enough to say, You shall celebrate this day as a Sabbath: one may from the same ground imagine, that in other Sabbaths they might do any servile work, because here also 〈…〉 are forbidden it; for it may be as well said, that other 〈…〉 had been enough to say, You shall sanctifie this day as you do other Sabbaths: here therefore is no new institution of time from the beginning of the Sabbath, but of a new Ordinance, together with the application of time according to common and ordinary account: and the Lord expresseth from even to even (which makes up a naturall day) left mans heart (which is soon weary of duties of Humiliation) should interpret it of an artificiall day; to prevent which mistake the Lord had good reason to set the distinct bounds of it from even to even.