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 second reason is taken out of Galath. 4. 10. Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. 11. I am in fear of you, least I have bestowed on you labour in vain. To this I answer, that we must not stand upon the titles of letters, but observe the scope of the writer, and weigh the drift of the epistle. The state of the cause is this; the Galatians were Gentiles, who by Paul his ministry had received the Gospel: afterward certain false Apostles, as all the learned agree, crept in, who did make them believe, that because the same civill policy of religion should be there, which was among the Jews, besides the purity of Christianism, went about to intermingle the superstitions of Judaism. The Apostle therefore showeth, that Christ being come to put away figures, all that maintained such days, months, and times, which the Jews observed, as they were Jews, should obscure Christ. The Jews had their solemn assemblies and convocations, Levit. 23. 2. certain times in the year, the first and last days whereof, they kept as Sabbaths to the Lord, of which Paul here speaketh, and therefore he saith ye observe Sabbaths, he saith not, a Sabbath, for which assuredly he is not here grieved with them. For Paul had planted this day among them, as appeareth 1. Corin. 16. 1. Concerning the gathering for the Saints, as I have ordained in the Churches of Galatia, so do ye also. Where we may see that ancient custom of the Primitive Church, which was, that after the word read for the space of an hour, after the ••• mon ended, and the Sacraments administered; many did use to give not of constraint, but of good will to the poor. Now seeing he had appointed the Lords day in Galatia, it is not like that he would so sharply have reprehended them for his own ordinance, as to say unto them, that he feared their backsliding from the trueth by it, but rather of those Jewish holy days, which being peculiar unto the Jews, had their beginning and their ending with them. And if we say, that that day should not be kept for a ceremony, but some other, that were not to abrogate but to change the ceremony: as he that stripping himself of one sort of clothing, and for pride investeth himself with a new suit, putteth not away but changeth his pride:

The second reason is taken out of Galath. 4. 10. Yee obserue daies, and moneths, and times, and yeeres. 11. I am in feare of you, least I haue bestowed on you labour in vaine. To this I answere, that we must not stand vpon the titles of letters, but obserue the scope of the writer, and weigh the drift of the epistle. The state of the cause is this; the Galathians were Gentiles, who by Paul his ministerie had receiued the Gospell: afterward certaine false Apostles, as all the learned agree, crept in, who did make them beleeue, that because the same ciuill policie of religion should be there, which was among the Iewes, besides the puritie of Christianisme, went about to intermingle the superstitions of Iudaisme. The Apostle therefore sheweth, that Christ being come to put away figures, all that maintained such daies, moneths, and times, which the Iewes obserued, as they were Iewes, should obscure Christ. The Iewes had their solemne assemblies and conuocations,