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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 92.
Nor can this Evening, be fairly interpreted of the former §92even before Sun set, as taking in that also; for this evening is to begin at the evening of the ninth day, verse 32. which evening of the ninth day is not the evening of that day about two or three of the clock, (for the tenth day only is called the day of Atonement, verse 27. and therefore part of the ninth day is no part of the Atonement day) but as Junius well expounds it, at the evening of the ninth day,1 puta qua nonus dies definit, at that nick of time, which is the communis terminus of the end of the ninth day and beginning of the tenth, you shall then celebrate your Sabbath: which curious exactness of the Lord, is partly to express his zeal for the full and plenary observation of the day, that he may not lose a moments time of honour, as also to show what care they should have of holding out from the first point to the last period of that Sabbath.
Nor can this Evening, be fairly interpreted of the former §92even before Sun set, as taking in that also; for this evening is to begin at the evening of the ninth day, verse 32. which evening of the ninth day is not the evening of that day about two or three of the clock, (for the tenth day onely is called the day of Atonement, verse 27. and therefore part of the ninth day is no part of the Atonement day) but as Iunius well expounds it, at the evening of the ninth day,1