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 ...

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Title: 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 ...
Author: Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649.
Publication: London :: Printed by T.R. and E.M. for John Rothwell ...,; 1650.
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Subject terms: Sunday -- Sermons.; Sabbath.
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Thesis 82.

But was ever any punctum temporis (which is thought to be [ 82] no part of time) called by the name of Night as this darke∣nesse is? Gen. 1.4, 5. with 2. Was the World made in six dayes and is there a Heaven and Earth made within the time of this darkenesse, and yet this time of darkenesse to be no part of time, but onely a Mathematicall point, but no reall part of succeeding Time? Zanchy long since hath largely con∣futed and crusht this Egge-shell, where the Reader may looke; there was not indeed any Celestiall motion of the Heavens to measure this Time by, (for Master Weemes objects tempus est mensura motus) but by this Argument there was no Time till the fourth day, when the Sun and Starrs were created, nor is Time properly mensura mo••us, but as Eternity is the indetermi∣nate duration of a thing together, so Time is the determinate duration of things by succession: which was evidently since Time began on the first moment of creation.