A59693:922
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 94.
If the Sabbath do not begin at evening, why did Nehemiah (an exemplary Magistrate) command the Gates to be shut, when the Gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath? Nehem. 13.19. was it not left the Sabbath should be profaned that night, by bringing in of wares and burdens through the Gates, as well as in the ensuing day? is it not expressly said, that he set his servants at these Gates that there might be no burden brought in upon the Sabbath day? is it not expressly said that he set the Levites to keep the Gates to sanctify the Sabbath day? verse 19, 22. Now if this […] was no part of the Sabbath, how could they then be said to sanctify the Sabbath thereby?
If the Sabbath do not begin at evening, why did Nehemiah (an exemplary Magistrate) command the Gates to be shut, when the Gates of Ierusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath? Nehem. 13.19. was it not left the Sabbath should be prophaned that night, by bringing in of wares and burdens thorow the Gates, as well as in the ensuing day? is it not expresly said, that he set his servants at these Gates that there might be no burden brought in upon the Sabbath day? is it not expresly said that he set the Levites to keep the Gates to sanctifie the Sabbath day? verse 19, 22. Now if this 〈…〉 was no part of the Sabbath, how could they then be said to sanctifie the Sabbath thereby?