A02178:1682
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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It remaineth to speak of the fourth & last reason, drawn from the proportion of God1 his own example, as may appear in these words, Exod. 20. 11. For in six days the Lord made the heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. Wherein we have thus much in effect, as the Lord made the creatures in six days: so we in six should have a natural use of them. And as he sanctified, that is, put a part the seventh day to his own worship, and blessed it with a peculiar blessing given to his worship appointed: so we also setting this day apart, from the ordinary works of our calling, should wholly and only consecrate it to the worship of God. So that as God made all things in six days: so we may use them six days, as Adam did in the garden: and as the Lord rested from his works of creation, though not from his work of providence and administration, so must we ⟨p. 137⟩set a part this day, to look for a special blessing and special benediction of God his worship, because of his own promise and institution. Why did the Lord this to our first2 father? he beheld the works of every day, and blessed every day? We must note, that he gave a special blessing above the other days, unto this day. Now therefore admit that a man should grant this much to an heretic, that we should be as perfect as Adam in his innocency: (which is a manifest heresy) yet they must grant, that we stood in need of the word and Sacraments, (the use whereof they deny) seeing Adam had need of the use of all these things, being yet without sin. We therefore oppose thus much unto them, that so long as they will acknowledge a need of corporal helps, by calling for meat, sleep, apparel: so long their souls stand in need of spiritual means, as of the word, Sacraments and prayer, because their souls must as well be preserved, as their bodies nourished. Our first father then had a Sabbath to be put in mind of the Creator, and that without distraction he might the better be put in mind of the glorious kingdom to come, that more freely he might give himself to meditation, and that he might the better glorify God in six days. As the heretics then deny the necessity of the word, prayer and Sacraments: