Theses sabbaticae, or, The doctrine of the Sabbath : wherein the Sabbaths I. Morality, II. Change, III. Begining, IV. Sanctification, are clearly discussed : which were first handled more largely in sundry sermons in Cambridge in New-England ...
Theses sabbaticae is a 1649 London theological treatise on the Sabbath by Thomas Shepard, a Cambridge, New England minister, printed for John Rothwell and drawn from his sermons. Its pictures are small decorative initial letters, built from dense strapwork, scrolls and foliage in black and white woodcut. A designer might take from them the hatched shading and interlaced ornament of seventeenth-century printed capitals for display letters or borders.
