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 102.

They that say the law is our rule as it is given by Christ, [ 102] but not as it was given by Moses, doe speak niceties, at least ambiguities; for if the Lord Christ give the law to a Be∣leever as his rule, why should any then raise a dust, and affirme that the law is not our rule? For the Law may be considered either materially, or in it selfe, as it containes the matter of the Covenant of works: and thus considered, a Beleever is not to be regulated by it, for he is wholly free from it as a covenant of life; or it may be considered finally, or rather relatively, as it stood in relation and reference unto the people of the God of Abraham, who were already under Abrahams Covenant, which was a Covenant of free-grace,

viz. To be his God and the God of his seed, Gen. 17.7. And in this latter respect the law, as it was given by Moses, was given by Christ in Moses, and therefore the rule of love toward man (commanded by Moses) is called the law of Christ, Gal. 6.2. For the law as it was applyed to this peo∣ple, doth not run thus, viz. Doe all this, and then I will be your God and redeemer (for this is a Covenant of workes) but thus, viz. I am the Lord thy God (viz. by Abrahams Cove∣nant) who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, and house of bondage, Therefore thou shalt doe all this. If therefore the law delivered by Moses, was delivered by Christ in Mo∣ses, then there is no reason to set Christ and Moses together by the eares, in this respect I now speake of, and to affirme that the law, not as delivered by Moses, but as given by Christ, is our law and rule.