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,…

so we look for a new heaven, and a new earth, and then we hope and acknowledge, that we shall keep a continual Sabbath But in the mean time, seeing the Sabbath which we now have, was before sin, we, since sin came into the world, have much more need of it, because that which was needful to continue Adam in innocency, is also as needful to recover us, and to continue us in our recovery. The Lord then having sanctified this day, it is not our day, but the Lord his own day.

so we looke for a new heauen, and a new earth, and then we hope and acknowledge, that we shall keepe a continuall Sabbath But in the meane time, seeing the Sabbath which we now haue, was before sinne, we, since sinne came into the world, haue much more neede of it, because that which was needfull to continue Adam in innocencie, is also as needfull to recouer vs, and to continue vs in our recouerie. The Lord then hauing sanctified this day, it is not our day, but the Lord his owne day.

But some will say: How? is God better served on the Sabbath, than on any other¹ day? I answer, not that we put religion in that day, as it is a day, more than in any other: but that on that day we are freer from distractions, and set at more liberty to the worshipping of God, than we are on the other six days, wherein we are bound to our ordinary and lawful calling. Wherefore as we put on holiness in the creatures of water, bread and wine in the Sacraments; but acknowledge all inward grace to proceed from God his blessing and institution: so we promise unto our selves on the Lord his day a greater blessing, not for any thing in the day it self, but by reason of God his own ordinance, and promise of a blessing to the same. And as we deny not a blessing from the Lord on private prayer, reading and conference, but acknowledge a greater blessing to be due² even by the Lord his own promise, to these exercises public in comparison of the other: so we deny not the grace of God to be upon those hours redeemed from our outward callings, and consecrated to the Lord: but confess a more special blessing from God to belong to that whole day, which the Lord hath taken up to himself alone, and that for his own promise sake unto all them, which come with simple hearts to obey his holy commandment.