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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 3.
As therefore the holiness of the Sabbath is moral, because §3it is the end of the day; so is the Rest of the Sabbath (the immediate means to that end) moral also. Look therefore what ever holy duties the Lord required of the Jews, which were not ceremonial, the same duties he requires of us upon this day; so what every Rest he required of them for this end, he exacts of all Christians also.
As therefore the holinesse of the Sabbath is morall, because §3it is the end of the day; so is the Rest of the Sabbath (the immediate means to that end) morall also. Looke therefore what ever holy duties the Lord required of the Iewes, which were not ceremoniall, the same duties he requires of us upon this day; so what every Rest he required of them for this end, he exacts of all Christians also.
Thesis 4.
Those that make the Sabbath ceremonial, imagine a §4stricter Rest imposed upon the Jews then Christians are ⟨p. 80⟩