A02178:1680
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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Now let us proceed to the third reason, taken from the Law-giver, or author of the commandments. For it thus followeth, Exod. 20 vers. 6. But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God, &c. This argument we know to be used severely in the three precepts1 going before. In the first it goeth before the commandment: in the second it cometh after: in the third it is more nearly adjoined. And here it is called the Lords Sabbath: which proveth that therefore it must be wholly spent upon the Lord. Now were it ceremonial, then it should follow that there were but nine commandments, seeing, (Deutr. 4. 13.) Moses affirmeth, that the covenant which the Lord commanded his people to do, were ten commandments: where we see, that not the Church, but the word of God setteth down this computation. And albeit the ceremonies be ⟨p. 136⟩also the commandments of the Lord, nevertheless we must wisely distinguish between2 the one and the other. The commandments were immediately given out by the Lord himself, the ceremonies were given immediately to Moses from the Lord: but mediately from God to his people by the ministry of Moses. For it is said, Deutero. 5. 22. These words the Lord spake unto all your multitude in the mount out of the middest of the fire, the clouds, and the darkness with a great voice, and added no more thereto In which place the man of God speaketh of the ten commandments, which a little before he had repeated, as they were published, generally to all by the Lord himself, which therefore are perpetual to all people, nations and languages, not only to the Jews, but also to the Gentiles. The ceremonies, as we know, were not universal, but beginning with the Jews they ended with them: neither were they perpetual, but in Christ his coming were abrogated. This difference is yet more plainly set down, Deutero. 4. 13. 14. Then the Lord declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to do, even the ten Commandments, and wrote them upon two tables of stone. And the Lord commanded me the same time, that I should teach you ordinances and laws, which ye should observe in the land, whither ye go to possess it. Where Moses maketh a flat difference of those laws, which God gave in his own person, and them which were given by his ministry.