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 April 30, 2024.
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Thesis 154.
God is said, Gen. 2.1, 2, 3. to blesse the Sabbath as he blessed [ 154] other creatures, but he blessed the creatures at that time they were made, Gen. 1.22, 28. and therefore he blessed the Sabbath at that time he rested; Shall Gods work be pre∣sently blessed, and shall his rest be then without any? Was Gods rest a cause of sanctifying the day many hundred yeers after (as our adversaries say) and was the••e not as much cause then when the memory of the creation was most fresh, which was the fittest time to remember Gods work in? M. Primrose tels us that the creatures were blessed with a present bene∣diction, because they did constantly need it; but there was no necessity (he saith) that man should solemnize the seventh as soon as tis made; but as we shall shew that man did then need a speciall day of blessing, so tis a sufficient ground of believing that then God blessed the day when there was a full and just, and sufficient cause of blessing, which is Gods resting; it being also such a cause as was not peculiar to the Jews many hundred yeers after, but common to all man∣kinde.