A02178:1858
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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But yet we ought to do it more, if we consider what great preparation hath been used in things inferior to this in the law; though then there were no commandment for this, yet by right of proportion a most reverent respect should be had thereof, & therefore we ought to yield unto it. As for example, thus we are to think, that if it be eating of the1 Paschal Lamb (which seal compared with this seal in the Gospel, there is no comparison indeed) they were some days before prepared: the same regard of reverence should be had of us in the participation of the Lords table, & so reasoning from the less to the greater, from the Law to the Gospel, from the passover to the Supper, it may be an argument unto us to prepare our selves thereunto. We need not stand long on this comparison, seeing a thing of less account, I mean the show-bread, would not be given to David without2 some stipulation, that is, without he were in some respects made fit to receive it; so that here we are gone a degree lower. But if we will go yet lower than this, come to the Ark it3 self, and see how he handled Uzzah, who put his unprepared hands to the Ark, for which the Lord was so mightily displeased, that he slew him for it. Nay which is more, if we shall4 come down to the very ground of Gods presence, where Moses could not appear until his shoes were off: nay if we go to the snuffers and pans and candlesticks, which none could meddle withal without sanctification: we may rise now upward as before we came down, and we may reason from these small things to the Ark, and from the Ark to the show-bread, and from the show-bread to the Passover, & from the Passover to the thing we have in hand to learn an argument of preparation. And if Joseph of Arimathea and others5 of the godly men and women which were with him, committing the body of Christ to the grave, would wrap it not only in a clean cloth, nor in every kind of linen, but in a clean syndon, which is a very fine linen: then what reverence are we to use in taking not the dead body, but the living body, yea the glorified body of the Lord in heaven?