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The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…
The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham, minister and preacher of the Word of God collected into one volume: revised, corrected, and published, for the further building of all such as love the truth, and desire to know the power of godliness. By H.H.The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham, minister and preacher of the Word of God collected into one volume: reuised, corrected, and published, for the further building of all such as loue the truth, and desire to know the power of godlinesse. By H.H.
London: printed by Thomas Snodham and Thomas Creede for William Welby, 1612London: printed by Thomas Snodham and Thomas Creede for VVilliam VVelby, 1612
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4. This Commandment alone hath a preface in the word Remember: where we be taught in this first reason, that if we desire to know and to obey God according to the first and second tables, remember this law set (as it were) between both. Secondly, that this law was given before, and always practised in the Church of God▪ Exod, 16. before the promulgation in Sina•. Wherefore it is not ceremonial, as some fantastically have conceived. He addeth many reasons, this special argument is one. The first end is the principal, sanctify the Sabbath was the first end, and it is the principal.
4. This Commandement alone hath a preface in the word Remember: where wee be taught in this first reason, that if we desire to knowe and to obey God according to the first and second tables, remember this law set (as it were) betweene both. Secondly, that this law was giuen before, and alwaies practised in the Church of God▪ Exod, 16. before the promulgation in Sina•. Wherefore it is not ceremoniall, as some phant•stically haue conceiued. He addeth many reasons, this speciall argument is one. The first ende is the principall, sanctifie the Sabbath was the first end, and it is the principall.
5. The second reason is, from the equity of the law, that the Lord granting us freely six days to travel & to merchā •ize for our selves, we should not presume to intermeddle •or invade the Lords ⟨image 61⟩own day the seventh day reserved for himself. And here again (against the ad•••saries) he s•ith, if these Commandments be ceremonial, then the permission of six days for work also is but of the same nature.