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,…

This Word it was decreed by God the Father, preached by God the Son, inspired by God the holy Ghost, and by Angels, Prophets, Apostles, and Evangelists successively made known to the children of the Church. The Church of the Jews knew it only for a time, there he thewed his ways unto Jacob, his statutes and ordinances unto Israel. The Church of the Gentiles shall know it for ever: he dealeth now graciously with every Nation, and the Heathen have knowledge of his Laws. True it is indeed, the Jews have the Bible, but by reason of that curtain drawn before their eyes, they cannot see him, who is the end of the Bible, there is a great difference between them and us.

This Worde it was decreed by God the Father, preached by God the Sonne, inspired by God the holie Ghost, and by Angels, Prophets, Apostles, and Euangelists successiuely made knowne to the children of the Church. The Church of the Iewes knew it onely for a time, there he thewed his wayes vnto Iaakob, his statutes and ordinances vnto Israel. The Church of the Gentiles shall know it for euer: he dealeth now graciously with euery Nation, and the Heathen haue knowledge of his Lawes. True it is indeede, the Iewes haue the Bible, but by reason of that curtaine drawne before their eyes, they cannot see him, who is the ende of the Bible, there is a great diference betweene them and vs.

They (as Hierome saith) have the books, we the word of those books: they the Prophets, we the understanding of the Prophets: they are killed by the Letter, we are quickened by the Spirit: They have Barabbas the murderer delivered: to us is delivered CHRIST the Son of God. Judas sold him, the Jew bought him, the true Christian is the possessor of him, whom he findeth in this Word, feeleth in the Sacraments, and feedeth on in his heart by a lively Faith. The antiquity, necessity, dignity, and commodity of Eli writ, if it were truly thought of as it should, would breed a greater love to the reading of it, desire to the knowledge of it, and care to the practising of it, then is now a days in the most of the world. For Antiquity, it is in part as ancient as the first Adam, and in whole, as old as the second, in whom all the Promises contained in this book are, Yea, and Amen. For necessity, as needful as the true knowledge of God, whom to know is eternal life. For dignity, so great that it alone must be called the Law of God, yea, that law then which no man can show a better to serve God by, or by which he may better know his duty to man. Compare we this our Christian law with those of Lycurgus, Draco, Solon, Zaleucus, Numa Pompilius, Roman twelve tables themselves, which Cicero preferreth above all the books of Philosophers, and the difference will be as great as the light