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 123.

A seventh day therefore is primarily morall, yet (as was [ 123] formerly said Thesis. 48.) there is something else in this com∣mandment which is secundarily morall, viz. This or that par∣ticular seventh day, I will not say that it is accidentally morall (as some do) but rather secundarily, and consequently morall: for it is not morall firstly, because it is this particular seventh, but because it hath a seventh part of time, divinely propor∣tioned and appointed for rest, falling into it, and of which it participates: to give almes to the needy is a morall duty, and primarily morall; but to give this or that quantity may be morall also, but it is secundarily morall, because it flowes ex consequenti, onely from the first; for if we are to give almes according to our ability and others ne∣cessity, then this or that particular quantity thus suting

their necessity must be given: which is also a morall duty, so 'tis in this point of the Sabbath.