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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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Thus having spoken of those places in the Gospel, which might seem to make against1 the Sabbath, now let us speak of those places in the epistles of the Apostles, that we may see whether they contain any sound trueth for their purpose, howsoever they be thought to have some hold in show. These allegations are either out of the epistles of Paul, or the epistles to the Hebrews: out of the epistles of Paul▪ which he wrote to the Romans, to the Galatians, or to the Colossians. The place which they bring out of the epistle to the Romans is in the 14▪ chap. vers. 1. Him that is weak in the faith receive unto you, but not for controversies of disputations. 2. One believeth that he may eat of all things: and another which is weak, eateth herbs. 3. Let not him that eateth, despise him that eateth not: and let not him which eateth not, judge him that eateth: for God hath received him. 4. Who ar• thou that condemnest another mans servant? he standeth or falleth to his •wne master: yea he shall be established: for God is able to make him stand 5. This man esteemeth one day above another day, and another man counteth every day alike: l•t every man be fully persuaded in his mind▪ 6. He that observeth the day▪ observeth it to the Lord: and he that observeth not the day, observeth it ••t to the Lord, &c. In this last verse they would gather, that a man might make choice of days as he will, and as in a thing indifferent. And some learned expositors affirm, that the Apostle in this chapter entreateth of things, which in their own nature are indifferent: and therefore here we are to use them in love. As I grant this to be the general scope of the place, so I deny it to be the principal end. For as the Apostle speaketh of things indifferent, so he also speaketh of things not indifferent. And this we shall see, if we consider of the last verse of the chapter going before, and of the first of the chapter following. Thus it is written, chap. 13. vers. 14. Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, & take no thought for the fl•sh to fulfil the lusts of it. The effect whereof is thus much, if it be compared with the first verse of the chapter