A02178:1693
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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If thou wilt not rest in the bare ceremony of thy holy days, but wilt do thy holy service to me, and duties of love to thy brethren: then shalt thou show thy self to take true pleasure in God and his worship. Where we must learn so to delight our selves with the means of our salvation, that seeing we can but impart give our selves unto them in the week days, we should greatly rejoice when the Sabbath day cometh, contrary to the practise of the people •• Amos his time, who would say, Amos 8. 5. When will the new month be gone, that we may •••• corn? and the Sabbath that we may let forth wheat, and make the Ephah small, and the shek•• great, and falsify the weights by d•••it? Wherefore we conclude, that here is not the abrogating, but the pure celebrating of the Sabbath, which appeareth by effect, when it draweth us nearer to God, and causeth us to take greater pleasure in his ways.
If thou wilt not rest in the bare ceremonie of thy holie daies, but wilt do thy holy seruice to me, and duties of loue to thy brethren: then shalt thou shew thy selfe to take true pleasure in God and his worship. Where we must learne so to delight our selues with the meanes of our saluation, that seeing we can but i•part giue our selues vnto them in the weeke daies, we should greatly reioyce when the Sabbath day commeth, contrary to the practise of the people •• Amos his time, who would say, Amos 8. 5. When will the new moneth be gone, that we may •••• corne? and the Sabbath that we may let forth wheate, and make the Ephah small, and the shek•• great, and falsifie the weights by d•••it? Wherefore we conclude, that here is not the abrogating, but the pure celebrating of the Sabbath, which appeareth by effect, when it draweth vs neerer to God, and causeth vs to take greater pleasure in his waies.