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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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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Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649.
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London :: Printed by T.R. and E.M. for John Rothwell ...,
1650.
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Sunday -- Sermons.
Sabbath.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A59693.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 1, 2024.
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Thesis 109.
[ 109] The Apostle speakes of a law written and engraven on stones, and therefore of the morall Law, which is now a∣bolished by Christ in the Gospel, 2 Cor. 3.6, 7, 11, 13. Is the morall law therefore abolished as a rule of life now? no verily, but the meaning of this place is (as the former, Gal. 3.25.) for the Apostle speaking of the morall Law by a Synecdoche, comprehends the ceremoniall law also, both which the false Teachers, in those times urged as necessary to salvation and justification at least together with Christ, against whom the Apostle here disputes: the morall Law therefore is abolished first as thus accom∣panied with a yoke of Ceremonies, secondly, as it was formerly dispensed, the glorious and greater light of the Gospel now obscuring that lesser light under the Law, and therefore the Apostle, vers. 10. doth not say that there was no glory shining in the Law, but it had no comparative
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glory in this respect, by reason of the glory which excelleth: and lastly the Apostle may speak of the morall Law conside∣red as a Covenant of life which the false teachers urged, in which respect he cals it the Ministry of death and the letter which killeth, and the ministers of it (who were called Naza∣rei and Minei as Bullinger thinks) the Ministers of the letter,* 1.1 which although it was virtually abolished to the beleeving Jews before Gospell times (the vertue of Christs death exten∣ding to all times) yet it was not then abolished actually untill Christ came in the flesh, and actually undertooke to fullfill this Covenant for us to the utmost farthing of doing and suffe∣ring which is exacted, and now it is abolished both virtually and actually, that now we may with open face behold the glory of the Lord as the end of the law for righteousnesse to every one that doth beleeve.