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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Title: 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 ...
Author: Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649.
Publication: London :: Printed by T.R. and E.M. for John Rothwell ...,; 1650.
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Thesis 186.

[ 186] The type lies not in the day of worship; for the greatest adversaries of the Sabbath place a morality therein; nor doth it lie in a seventh day; for though seven be made a number of perfection; yet what sober minde ever made a type of se∣ven, more then of six or ten? Some have made the week a short summary and epitome and resemblance of that old prophesie of the worlds continuance for 6000. yeares (a thousand years being with God but as one day) and the se∣venth thousand the great day of rest and peace to the weary world; but this is a doubtfull assertion at best, or if true, yet it is not therefore properly a type, or if it be, yet not such a type as was to cease at the comming of Christ (as our adver∣saries would have the Sabbath) but when the Antitype is come of that seven thousand years: If therefore it lies any where, it is in it as in a rest day, or a day of rest.