A02178:1741
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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Now that this examining and stirring up of our selves may the better be done, it is requisite1 (contrary to the long and loathsome practise of the most part of men) that we rise early on the Sabbath day. We see young men will rise early to resort to marriages, to feastings, to go a maying, to ringing of bells, or such like vanities: the Papists will break their sleep, that more timely they may have their Masses, & popish practises: the here tikes also to attend on their vain revelations, will recover sometime by early rising: all which are to our shame, that for holy & heavenly exercises, to serve the Lord in spirit and truth, will redeem no time, whereby the Lord his Sabbath may be the better sanctified: but on the contrary, by bathing our bodies in our beds on that day more than on any other, as persuading our selves too great a liberty therein, we make it a day of our rest, and not of the Lords rest.
Now that this examining and stirring vp of our selues may the better be done, it is requisite1 (contrarie to the long and loathsome practise of the most part of men) that we rise earely on the Sabbath day. We see young men will rise earely to resort to matiages, to feastings, to goe a maying, to ringing of bels, or such like vanities: the Papists will breake their sleep, that more timely they may haue their Masses, & popish practises: the here tikes also to attend on their vaine reuelations, will recouer sometime by early rising: all which are to our shame, that for holy & heauenly exercises, to serue the Lord in spirit and truth, will redeeme no time, whereby the Lord his Sabbath may be the better sanctified: but on the contrary, by bathing our bodies in our beds on that day more than on any other, as perswading our selues too great a libertie therein, we make it a day of our rest, and not of the Lords rest.
- 1To rise early on the Sabbath.