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 19.

The will of God is indeed the rule of all goodnesse, and [ 19] consequently of all morall lawes, but we know there is vo∣luntas decreti, and voluntas mandati, the first of which, viz. the will of Gods decree (as it appeares in the execution of it) makes a thing to be good, whether it bee creature or law: the second of these, viz. the will of Gods command, enjoynes the practise of such a duty, the rule and law to guide which is first made good (if it bee a morall law) by the wisdome and power of the will of Gods decree; so that the will of God appearing in both these (viz. Gods de∣creeing and commanding will) is the compleat rule of e∣very morall law: So that as no law is morally good meer∣ly because it is commanded, so neither is it thus good unlesse also it be commanded. Gods will in all morall laws, is first to make them good, and then to command them, when they are thus far made good; both which together make up a morall law.