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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"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 14, 2024.

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Thesis 32.

Some thinke that those commandments onely are moral∣ly [ 32] good, which the Gospel hath declared and confirmed to be so: and by this shift they thinke to avoid the absurdity of flying to the blinde guide of corrupt nature to judge of these colours, viz. what is morall and what is not, Mr. Primrose therefore excludes the fourth Commandment from being morall, the other nine being ratified by the light of the Gospell, which this (he saith) is not: but if his mea∣ning be that there must be a generall ratification of lawes morall by the verdict of the Gospell, then the fourth Com∣mandment cannot be excluded from being morall, because it hath a ratification in generall from the Gospell: for therein wee read that the morall law is holy, just and good, Rom. 7. and that Christ came not to destroy the least jot or tittle of the law, Matth. 5. much lesse a whole law of the fourth Commandment. In the Gospel also God promi∣seth to write his Law upon our hearts, wherein the fourth Commandment is not excepted. But if his meaning be this, that the Gospell must particularly mention, and so make a particular ratification (as it were) by name of eve∣ry morall law, then his assertion is unsound; there being many judiciall lawes of Moses, of which some are wholly

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morall, others containing in them something of common and morall equity, which we have no expresse mention of in the blessed Gospell: and let him turne over al the leaves of the Gospell, hee shall not finde that proportion of time which himselfe affirmes to be morall in the fourth Commandment, to bee expressely and particularly men∣tioned in the Gospell; and therefore that also must be excluded from being morall upon his owne principles, as well as what we contend for in this Commandment so to bee.

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