COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Books Internet Archive
Record
Author:
Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649.
Author (contributor):
Stevens, Henry, Jr., 1819-1886
Author (contributor):
Greenhill, William, 1591-1671.
Author (contributor):
Geree, John, 1601?-1649.
Author (contributor):
Adderley, William.
Author (contributor):
Cranford, James, -1657.
Author (contributor):
Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.
Title:
Theses sabbaticae. 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 Cambridg [sic] in New-England, in opening of the fourth commandment. In unfolding whereof many Scriptures are cleared, divers cases of conscience resolved, and the moral law as a rule of life to a believer, occasionally and distinctly handled. /
Publisher:
Printed by Sarah Griffin for John Rothwel at the Fountain and Bear in Goldsmiths row in Cheap-Side
Begin Publication Date:
1655
MMS Id (Alma identifier):
991013120959706966
Permanent Call Number:
DA655 .S547t
Statistics Note 1 (Accession Number):
Accession number: 0457-0459
Subjects:
Sabbath.
Subjects:
Sunday.
Subjects:
Imprint 1655.
General Note:
Name of printer supplied by Wing CD.; The words "I. Morality," to "IV. Sanctification," on the title page are bracketed together on the right by the words "The Sabbaths" and "are clearly discussed" to the left.; Consists of 6 works issued together, each with separate dated title page.; "The change of the Sabbath. Wherein the true grounds of the change of the day are plainly opened ... The second part", p. [189]-227, 2nd count, has separate dated title page with imprint: London: Printed for John Rothwel, 1655.; "The beginning of the Sabbath. Wherein five several opinions about the beginning of the Sabbath, are set down ... The third part", p. [229]-243 and p. 260-296, 2nd and 3rd counts, have separate dated title page with imprint: London: Printed for John Rothwel, 1655.; "The sanctification of the Sabbath. Wherein the true rest of the day, together with the right manner of sanctifying of the day, are briefly opened ... The fourth part", p. [297]-320, 3rd count, has separate dated title page with imprint: London: Printed for John Rothwel, 1655.; "Certain select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that we may comfortably walk with God in our generall and particular callings", p. [1-2], 1-32, 4th and 5th counts, has separate dated title page with imprint: London: Printed for John Rothwel, 1655.; "The first principles of the oracles of God", p. [1-5], 1-17, 6th and 7th counts, has separate dated page with imprint: London: Printed for John Rothwel, 1655.; Imprimaturs on verso of title page of "The first principles of the oracles of God" signed: Ioseph Caryl and Iames Cranford; "To the Christian reader", p. [3-4], 6th count, signed and dated: VVilliam Adderley ... February, 1. 1647; "Christian reader", p. [5], 6th count, signed and dated: John Geree and Will. Greenhill. March 27. 1648. "Certain select cases resolved" and "the first principles of the oracles of God" were first issued together London, 1648 and became popularly known as the Cambridge catechism.; Signatures: A⁸ (A1 verso blank) a⁸ B-Z⁸ (N4, N5, P8, Q1, V7 versos blank) (E1, E3 missigned F, F3) 2A⁴; Errors in paging: p. 232, 233, 236, 237, 240, 241, and 242, 2nd counts, misnumbered 248, 249, 252, 253, 256, 257, and 24.; Title of part 1 printed within single rule border; titles of parts 2-4 printed with ornamental borders; woodcut head pieces; initial.
Local Note:
John Carter Brown Library copy 1 (DA655 .S547t) bound as 1st item of 2 with copy 1 of: Subjection to Christ in all his ordinances, and appointments, the best means to preserve out liberty / Thomas Shepard, London, 1657.; John Carter Brown Library copy 2 (DA659 .S547s cop. 2) bound as 3rd item of 4 with copy 2 of: The sincere convert. Discovering the small number of true beleevers, and the great difficulty of saving conversion / Thomas Shepard, London, 1659.; John Carter Brown Library copy 2 bound in contemporary full calf; rebacked.; Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 2: Henry Stevens: bookplate on front pastedown.