A02178:1685
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 having gone through these reasons, which prove the Sabbath day to be moral,1 and that this commandment is no less to be observed, than the other nine: before we enter into the exposition of the law it self, it shall be convenient to meet with such reasons, as some men bring to prejudice the trueth of that, which hath been already spoken: which being done, by God his grace we will come to the other. The reasons against the Sabbath may briefly be reduced into such, as either seem to be drawn out of the express words of the Scriptures: or else by some consequence to be gathered from the Scriptures. The arguments borrowed from the written word, are either out of the old Testament, or out of the new: they which are contained in the old, are taken either out of the law, or out of the Prophets. Out of the law, they make much a doe about that2 which is written, Exod. 31. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. where the Lord faith this unto Moses: Speak thou unto the children of Israel, and say, Notwithstanding keep ye my Sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and you in your generations, that ye may know that I the Lord do sanctify you, Ye shall therefore keep the Sabbath: for it is holy unto you: he that defileth it, shall die the death: therefore whosoever worketh therein, the same person shall be even cut off from among his people. Six days shall men work, but in the seventh day is the Sabbath of the holy rest to the Lord: ⟨p. 138⟩whosoever doth any work on the Sabbath day, shall die the death. Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, that they may observe the rest throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made the heaven and the earth, and in the seventh day he ceased and rested. Out of these words they snatch these three reasons. First they triumph before the conquest, and say, it is manifest that it is a sign: and therefore as they please to conclude, it is a figure. True it is, that it is here called a sign, vers. 13. as also Ezech. 20. 12▪ it is plain: howbeit this is no good reason, that seeing the Sabbath is a sign, therefore it is a figure or shadow. For although every figure and shadow be a sign; yet every sign is not a figure or shadow. A figure foresheweth a trueth afterwards to be revealed: