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,…

And thus much for those reasons, which are out of the very words of the Scripture: no• of those arguments which are drawn by consequence out of the Scripture. Their main¹ reason is this, which deceiveth many: That which is grafted in mans nature, whereof the Gentiles were not ignorant, and which continueth to the kingdom of Christ at his second coming is moral▪ and that which was not natural, unknown to the Gentiles, an• lasted but unto the first coming of Christ, was ceremonial: but such was the Sabbath, therefore the Sabbath is a ceremony▪ and not a moral precept. I answer first, that natural and moral, which they make all one, must not be confounded▪ True it is, that our first parents had the law of God written² in their hearts, before it was promulgated in the mount: whereunto, as we said, the ceremonies (serving as rudiments for a time, and as appurtenances) of the law were adjoined. And albeit the moral law be the explaining of the natural law: yet it doth not follow, that that which is in the moral law, is no more than that which is in the natural law. We know our first father Adam, besides the law of nature, had the Sabbath in express words given him: and although he had the great books of Gods works, yet he had the Word and Sacraments also: both which were without his nature, and had them not in his own³ nature. So the things here spoken renew that which was given, besides that which he had by the law of nature. The Gentiles then can no more by the light of nature see the true Sabbath of the Lord, and the time wherein he will be worshipped, than the pure means and manner which the Lord hath appointed for his worship: and therefore both Papists, Heretics & Gentiles, are as well deceived by ignorance in this observation of the fourth Commandment, as they be in the second. Again, I may answer, that in some manner both the second and fourth Commandments are engrafted in mans nature. For never any were found so profane, which would not grant that God ought to be worshipped, and that not only inwardly but outwardly also by means. And the Gentiles by the instinct of nature would acknowledge, that as there was a God to be worshipped, so there should be some time which should be sequestered from other business, and should be bestowed on matters concerning the worship of God.