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 106.

When the Gospel nakedly urgeth Beleevers to good [ 106] workes and obedience to the Law, it is then considered onely as a rule of life, but when wee meet with such Scriptures as set the Law and Christ, the Law and grace, the Law and promise, the Law and faith, &c. at opposition one against another, then the Law in such places is ever consi∣dered as a Covenant of life, from which we are wholly freed, and unto which we should be wholly dead, that we•• may be married unto Christ, Rom. 7.4. hence therefore their arguings are feeble and weak, who would prove a Chri∣stian to be wholly free from the directive power of the Law,

because a Christian is said not to be under the law but un∣der grace, Rom. 6.14. and because the Law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ, Iohn 1.17. and because the inheritance is not by the law, but by pro∣mise and by faith, Gal. 3.12.18. for these and such like Scrip∣tures speake of the law as standing in opposition to Christ, and therefore speake of it as of a Covenant of life, by which men seek to be justified: from which (we grant) a Belee∣ver is wholly freed, and unto which hee is not bound, nay hee is bound to renounce it, and cast out this bond-woman, but all this doth not prove that he is free from it as his rule of life.