A02178:1688
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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Their reasons out of the Prophets be taken either out of Isaiah, or out of Ezekiel. Out of1 Isaiah they use these places, Isaiah. 56. 1. 2. and 58. 13. 14. and 66. 13. The words of the ⟨p. 139⟩Prophet, chap. 56. vers. 1. 2 are these: Thus saith the Lord, keep judgement and do justice: for my salvation is at hand to come, and my righteousness is to be revealed. Blessed is the man that doth this, and the son of man which layeth hold on it: he that keepeth the Sabbath, and polluteth it not, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. See, say they, here is the Sabbath commended2 as a resting from sin. I deny it not, but our controversy is about the ground of the Sabbath. For why doth the Lord so call on his people by the Prophets for keeping the Sabbath, and crieth so much against the breach of the same, but because it was the especial means of God his worship and their salvation: which being contemned, they contemned God his worship, and their own welfare? And because in this horrible contempt of the holy school of the Lord, where they should have learned both their religion towards God, and duties to their brethren, they gave a manifest token of carelessness in them both, they are worthily threatened by the Prophet. And concerning the pure interpretation of this place, by keeping the Sabbath, is meant the observation of the first table;3 by keeping their hands from doing any evil, is understood the obedience of the second table: so that the thing in this place chiefly urged, is this, that they should keep the Sabbath, which might nourish them in the worship of God, and in duties to their brethren. But, say they, the Sabbath is here joined with ceremonies, as may appear in the verses following:4 therefore it is a ceremony. This is no sound argument. For in the law is set down the moral law, which teacheth the common duties of all Gods people, wherein be also