A02178:1775
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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It remaineth in the last place to show, how the Sabbath is profaned either in thought,1 in word, or in deed. For there is a difference between the not sanctifying, and the plain profaning of the Sabbath, in that the one is not altogether desirous to break it, the ether hath no desire at all to keep it. Neither is the Sabbath only broken by profaneness, but also by idle works, and not careful keeping of it Some profane the Sabbath by corrupt judgement, as Heretics: some by a corrupt life, as carnal professors; the one a high malice of Satan, the other a dangerous deceit o• the devil. When men too worldly minded, make the Lords day a day of riddance, a packing day, a counting day to make odds even with all men, but even things odd with God. And it is the lamentable sin of our age, to press the Lords ordinance & appointed day with all relics of law matters; with the dregs of ancient quarrels, or new broached brawlings, with posting to Justices; not to be reconciled, but to be avenged, not to finish, but to re•ive controversies, and to •ub old injuries until they bleed: so as that day that is sanctified & ordained for love, is a day of hatred; of a day of reconciliation, it is made a day of dissension; and this cannot but proceed from a profane stock. Others as seeming more favourable, though they make not this day a time of pampering of the flesh (which is a time of purging the flesh) yet they make it a day of palpable darkness, which should be a day of bright shining light: by hunting2 of bears, by haunting of plays, and such like, that if they begin the day in the spirit, ⟨p. 171⟩they w••l end in the flesh, receiving some good motions in the morning▪ they bury them in the evening, and giving the Lord the forenoon, they recompense the devil with the afternoon. Yea in some place the Lords day is the Devils day, being fraught with so many frays, stained with such filthy fornication, and burdened with the sins which their ordinary callings on the week days spue•out, in that on those days they cannot be frequented for want o company. Now whether we speak of the not sanctifying, or of the