A02178:1731
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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Look into the history of the Kings and Judges, in the books of the Chronicles, where you shall find mention made but once of the Sabbath, and we have it once commanded by precept, Gen. 2. 2. and commended by practise, Exod. 16. 26. in which place the man of God speaketh in the preterperfect tense, Behold how the Lord hath given you the Sabbath. Their1 second reason is drawn from the straitness of the law to be executed (Exod. 35. 2. 3.) on him that gathered sticks, which they say must not be enjoined us. Concerning this, it maketh2 no more against the moral observation of this precept, than the other ceremonies did against the other precepts, whereunto they were joined. The Jews being in their nonage had rules peculiar to themselves, with these we are not entangled: how be it they had other general commandments, which being common to us with them, appertain still unto us. As for example, to teach our children the commandments of the Lord, appertaineth3 to us, Deut. 6. 7. but to bind them upon our hands for a sign, & as frontlets between our eyes, appertaineth to the Jews: to bury the dead belongeth unto us▪ but to embalm them with spices, who had not so clear a testimony of the resurrection, belongeth to the Jews. Is not the law of murder as well enjoy •ed us, as to the Jews? yet we may eat blood, which they could not. We ought to be as temperate as they, yet we may eat the fatness of meat, which was forbidden them. And so in all the commandments the moral observation belongeth to us as well as to them, the ceremonial keeping, to them and not to us. And the same we conclude of this place concerning the fire making on this day.
Look into the historie of the Kings and Iudges, in the bookes of the Chronicles, where you shall finde mention made but once of the Sabbath, and wee haue it once commanded by precept,