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 77.

There is (as some call it) Sabbathum internum & externum, [ 77] i. an internall and externall Sabbath; the first (if I may lawfully call it a Sabbath) is to be kept every day in a spe∣ciall rest from sin; the second is to bee observed at certaine times and on speciall days; now if that other place, Isa. 66.23. (which is much urged for the equality of all days) be meant of a continuall Sabbath, so that those words, from Sab∣bath to Sabbath, if they signifie a constant continuall worship of God indefinently, then the Prophet speaks of an internall Sabbath, which shall in speciall be observed under the Gospel; but this doth not abolish the observation of an externall Sabbath also, no more then in the times before the Gospel, when the people of God were bound to observe a continuall Sabbath and rest from sin, and yet were not exempted here∣by from externall Sabbaths, onely because more grace is pou∣red out upon the people of God under the new Testament then under the old, and under some times and seasons of the new Testament, and some people, more then at and upon others: hence this prophesie points at the times of the Go∣spell, wherein Gods people shall worship God more spiritu∣ally and continually then in former times: But if by this phrase From Sabbath to Sabbath, be meant, succession, i. one Sabbath after another successively, wherein Gods people shall enjoy blessed fellowship with God from Sabbath to Sabbath, successively in the worship of him, one Sabbath after ano∣ther; then this place is such a weapon in their owne hands against themselves, as that it wounds to the heart that ac∣cursed conceit, that all dayes should be abandoned by those under the new Testament: But suppose that by Sabbath, is not meant the weekly Sabbath (for then, say some, what will you understand by new moons which are conjoyned with them?) yet these two things are evident, 1. That Sab∣baths and new moons were set times of worshipping God

under the old Testament. 2. That it is usuall with the Prophets to vaile, (and not alway to type out) the worship, and so the times of worship which were to be under the new Testament, under the Ordinances of God observed in the old, as may appeare Isa. 19.19. Mal. 1.11. as also by Ezeki∣els Temple, and such like: hence then it followes, that al∣though this place should not evict a seventh dayes Sabbath, yet it demonstrates at least thus much, that some let times and dayes shadowed out under the name of new moons and Sabbaths, are to be observed under the new Testament, and this is sufficient to prove the point in hand, That all daies are not equall under the Gospell.