A02178:1690
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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Herein is the difference between the Jews and us, that they in all their Sacraments and sacrifices represented Christ, that was to come, and showed that their sins in him should be taken away, being yet to come: we manifestly in our sacrifices witness, that he is already come, and that our sins in his death are fully pardoned. Besides, to those forenamed sacrifices we have the sacrifices of prayer, and thanksgiving: whereof the Prophet speaketh, Psalm. 141. 2. Let my prayer be directed in thy sight as incense, and the lifting up of mine hands as an evening sacrifice. As also Psalm 119. part. 14. vers. 108. O Lord, I beseech, thee accept the free offerings of my mouth, and teach me thy judgements. Of these sacrifices is mention, Malac. 1. Hose. 14. 2. Mat. 24. Joh. Heb. 13. 15. Now in that it followeth, Isaiah. 56. 7. that the Lord will bring them to his house of prayer: I grant, in that they had but one house of prayer, which represented to them the Church to be one, it was ceremonial: yet I also confess, that in the same was this common truth, that it should be a mean to worship God. Wherefore in this place the Lord commandeth and commendeth holy ⟨p. 140⟩assemblies even to us, to whom they be as needful as to the Jews. For though it be not now necessary, nor required, that we should go up to Jerusalem to worship after the manner of the Jews: yet besides our private houses, wherein we may worship the Lord, we have need of one public and common place to meet in: whereunto the Lord in his Gospel hath made this promise, that where two or three shall be gathered in his name, he will be in the middest of them. This also is commended unto us by the example of the holy Apostles, who met together, and besides their several houses it is said, Acts. 2. 46