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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 17.
The third is; This holiness ought to be not only immediate ⟨p. 87⟩and special, but constant and continued, the whole day together. For upon every day of the week we are to take some time for converse with God; but our worldly occasion soon call us off, and that lawfully; but Sabbath holiness must be constant and continued all the day; if the Lord was so strict that he would not lose a moments honour in a ceremonial day of rest, Levtt. 23.3•. what shall we think the Lord expects upon this day which is moral? the Lord would not be honoured this day only by fits and flashes, and sudden pangs, which pass away as the early dew; but as tis in the Psalm for the Sabbath, Its good to sing of his loving kindness in the morning, and of his faithfulness every night, Psal. 92.1, 2. and though this be a wearisome thing to the flesh to be so long pent in, and although we cannot perfectly do it, yet its a most sweet and glorious work in it self, to think that the infinite glorious God should call a poor sinful creature to be with him and attend upon him all the day long; to be ever with the Lord is best of all, but next to that to be with him a whole day together: they that see how fit they are to be for ever banished from the presence of the most High, and how exceeding unworthy to come into it, cannot but infinitely and excessively prize that love of Jesus Christ, this day to come and enter into his rest, and lie in his very bosom, all the day long, and as a most loving friend loth to part with them, till needs must, and that the day is done.