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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.
Now that they began to rest in the evening is evident from §98these considerations:
1. That our saviour dyed the Ninth hour. Luke 23.44, 46. which was about three of the clock in the afternoon. A little after, this Joseph begs his body and takes it down because it was [Greek or Hebrew] or preparation for the Sabbath Mark 15.42. in which preparation its said that the Sabbath did [Greek or Hebrew], draw on, shine forth Luke 23.54. now this shining or breaking forth of the Sabbath cannot be meant of the day light morning shining forth; for its a mere dream to think, that Joseph should be so long a time in doing so little work, from Saturday in the afternoon until the next morning light, only in taking of Christ from the Cross, wrapping him in Linen, and laying him in his own Sepulchre, which was not far off, but near at hand also. John 19.42. The shining forth of the Sabbath also stop• the women from proceeding to anoint Christs Body, after they had brought their Spices; and therefore if the shining forth of the Sabbath had been the morning after, they might certainly have had sufficient time to do that work in; the shining forth therefore of this Sabbath was in the latter evening in which the Sabbath began; and its said to shine forth by a metaphor, because it did then first appear, or draw on; or, as Piscator and sundry others think, because about that time the stars in Heaven, and the Lamps and Candles in houses began to shine forth; which is just then when darkness is predominant, which is the beginning of the Sabbath at evening time.