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 ...

Thesis 33.

[ 33] It is true that sometimes those things which are first in or∣der of t••me, are spoken of last in order of story; and therefore its no solid Argument to prove that the Evening is before the Morning, meerly because the Evening is set downe first before the Morning, unlesse it can be proved that the story sets down such things (and so this in particular) orderly; which I sup∣p••se is evident. 1 Because the first darknesse is called Night, and also comprehends the whole Time of night, as light com∣hends the whole Time of the Day, Gen. 1.4, 5. Now I doe not find in all the Scripture, nor is any man I thinkable to shew that the whole Night is taken for the Morning, and therefore the first darknesse could not possibly begin at the Morning or Midnight Morning, 2. Because the Scope of Moses in this Chapter is to set down not onely the work of Creation, but the exact order of it, and consequently of the order of Time, which was consecrated with the World; first the beginning of it, then the succession and vicissitude of it, first

in the dark night, then in the light day, and (which is all one) first in the Evening, then in the Morning, 3. Because the Evening may be the end of the Artificiall day; but I know no proofe from any instance in Scripture to make it the end of the Naturall day, of which Moses here speakes; and therefore as Evening cannot end the day, so Midnight Morning cannot be∣••in it.