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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
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Thesis 19.
Now when the Lord hath inclined us thus to Rest and sanctify his Sabbath, what should the last act of our holiness be but diffusive and communicative, viz. in doing our utmost that others under us or that have relation to us, that they sanctify the Sabbath also, according to the Lords express particular charge in the Commandment; Thou, thy Son, thy Daughter, thy Servants, the Stranger within thy Gates; the excellency of Christs holiness consists in making us like himself in holiness; the excellency and glory of a Christians holiness is to endeavour to be like to the Lord Christ therein: our Children, Servants Strangers who are within our Gates, are apt to profane the Sabbath; we are therefore to improve our power over them for God, in restraining them from sin, and in constraining them (as far as we can) to the holy observance ⟨p. 89⟩of the Rest of the Sabbath; least God impute their sins to us who had power (as Eli in the like case) to restrain them and did not; and so our Families and Consciences be stained with their guilt and blood.
Now when the Lord hath inclined us thus to Rest and sanctifie his Sabbath, what should the last act of our holinesse be bvt diffusive and communicative, viz. in doing our utmost that others under us or that have relation to us, that they sanctifie the Sabbath also, according to the Lords expresse particular charg in the Commandement; Thou, thy Sonne, thy Daughter, thy Servants, the Stranger within thy Gates; the excellency of Christs holinesse consists in making us like himsele in holinesse; the excellency and glory of a Christians holinesse is to endeavour to be like to the Lord Christ therein: our Children, Servants Strangers who are within our Gates, are apt to prophane the Sabbath; we are therefore to improve our power over them for God, in restraining them from sinne, and in constraining them (as farre as we can) to the holy observance