Thomas Shepard

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Thomas Shepard (1605–1649) was an English Puritan minister who fled Archbishop Laud's persecution to become pastor of the first church in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A leading voice against Antinomianism during the Hutchinson controversy, he is remembered for his searching writings on saving grace, including The Sincere Convert and The Sound Believer.

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The Change Of The Sabbath
Thesis 1. The change of this day from the last to the first day of the week, although it be confirmed by an ancient custom, yet the true reason and grounds of so great a change are not so fully known, sacred writings not so expressly setting down (as it does in some things of less concernment) the…