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,…

Wherefore we affirm, that as it was peculiar to the Jews, as concerning their deliverance, that end of the Sabbath is ceased: but as it is common to us with them, and all others, to be preserved in the means of true worship, the Sabbath is to be observed: So that not the doctrine and sincere obedience of the Sabbath, ^*but the curse of the Law, and rigorous keeping of the Sabbath is abrogated. When one thing hath divers ends, if one end be removed, the other may remain. For as the Sacraments in the time of the law had two ends: the one to foreshow that Christ should come; the other to assure them, what they should have in Christ when he came: and in that they did foreshow Christ to come, they are gone; as they assured us what we have in Christ, they remain still with us. And as for one example we may see in the Sacrament of Circumcision two ends; the one a sign of the circumcision of the flesh, which is now ceased; the other a seal of Repentance and Faith: and so it is unto us remaining a token of imitation, though not in the same manner of administration that is in circumcision, yet in the ⟨p. 134⟩same matter to that effect, to wit, in Baptism: so likewise the Sabbath having two ends, the one moral, the other ceremonial. As it was ceremonial, and was given to the Jews, as they were Jews, it was proper to the Jews; but as it was moral, not given to the Jews alone, but to our first fathers before the Jews, and to the Gentiles after the Jews, it remaineth no less to all men, after the Jews ceased to be a peculiar people, then the coming together to one place doth yet appertain unto us. For although in that the Jews came together to one place, as it represented the Church of God, it is taken away, because God is present with us in all places: yet as they had it to establish them in their worship, and we² need as necessary helps for religion as ever they needed, the same remaineth with us.

Wherefore we affirme, that as it was peculiar to the Iewes, as concerning their deliuerance, that ende of the Sabbath is ceased: but as it is common to vs with them, and all others, to bee preserued in the meanes of true worship, the Sabbath is to bee obserued: So that not the doctrine and sincere obedience of the Sabbath,