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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
What is then the alluding of this word rest? This it is. As God rested from his works, after he had made the world: so we must rest from our works. What from the works of sin? no, from the works of our callings, and consequently from the works of sin much more. So the analogy betwixt the Lord his rest and ours, teacheth us that we must rest from our ordinary works, and this rest putteth us in mind of that continual Sabbath, wherein when we cease from1 working, eating, drinking, sleeping, marrying, and all such works, as we are subject unto with corruption: then also shall we undoubtedly cease from sin, which kind of rest in fullness we must not look for in this life.
What is then the alluding of this word rest? This it is. As God rested from his workes, after he had made the world: so we must rest from our workes. What from the workes of sinne? no, from the workes of our callings, and consequently from the workes of sinne much more. So the analogie betwixt the Lord his rest and ours, teacheth vs that we must rest from our ordinarie workes, and this rest putteth vs in minde of that continuall Sabbath, wherein when we cease from1 working, eating, drinking, sleeping, marying, and all such workes, as we are subiect vnto with corruption: then also shall we vndoubtedly cease from sinne, which kinde of rest in fulnes we must not looke for in this life.
- 1A Sabbath in heaven.A Sabbath in heauen.
This is a general rule in Divinity to be observed, that of one place of Scripture there is 1but one natural and proper sense: although by consequence, searching out the contraries, the causes, the effects, and such like, other things may be also gathered out of it. If the words be more