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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 2.
And as the rest of the Day is for the holiness of it, so is all §2the labour of the Week for this holy rest; that as the end of all the labour of our lives is for our rest with Christ in Heaven, so also of the six days of every week for the holy Rest of the Sabbath, the twilight and dawning of Heaven. For the eighth Commandment which would not have us steal, commands us therefore to labour for our Families and comforts in all the seasons of labour. This fourth command therefore which not only permits but commands us to labour six days, must have another respect in commanding us to labour, and a higher end, which cannot be any thing else but with respect to the Sabbath; that as we are to watch unto prayer, so we are to work unto the Sabbath, or so work all the Week day that we may meet with God, and sanctify the Sabbath day.
And as the rest of the Day is for the holinesse of it, so is all §2the labour of the Week for this holy rest; that as the end of all the labour of our lives is for our rest with Christ in Heaven, so also of the six daies of every weeke for the holy Rest of the Sabbath, the twilight and dawning of Heaven. For the eighth Commandement which would not have us steale, commands us therefore to labour for our Families and comforts in all the seasons of labour. This fourth command therefore which not onely permits but commands us to labour six daies, must have another respect in commanding us to labour, and a higher end, which cannot be any thing else but with respect to the Sabbath; that as we are to watch unto prayer, so we are to worke unto the Sabbath, or so worke all the Weeke day that we may meet with God, and sanctifie the Sabbath day.