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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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The cause then why we have no more pleasure in praising God, is because we observe no more diligently Gods mercy, and truth fulfilled and executed in our selves, or in others.
The cause then why we haue no more pleasure in praising God, is because we obserue no more diligently Gods mercy, and truth fulfilled and executed in our selues, or in others.
Seven times a day. If this be used on any day, doubtless on the Sabbath day, because in respect of our callings, other days are full of distractions, neither are the minds at such liberty as they are at other times. The Apostle Ephes. 5. 16. saith, Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess, but be ye fulfilled in the spirit; 29. speaking unto your selves in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, &c: as if he should say, whereas other men cannot be merry, unless they ⟨p. 587⟩be mad, and they can find no solace, without their own conceits; yet it is good for you in your most mirth to be plentiful in the spirit & in good affections. The same thing is urged Colos. 3. 16 Let the word of God dwell plentifully in you in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing your own selves in Psalms, &c. What shall now become of them? who think they do God great good service, to come twice on the Lord his day to the Church, and think it a sufficient discharge for them, seeing the Prophet protesteth, that he came seven times a day to praise God: that is, Often he resorted to this sacrifice: for this phrase of speech is usual in the word to set down a certain number to express an uncertain thing. These remember not the often frequenting of private prayer, thanksgiving, conference, admonition, preparation, visiting of the sick, alms giving, which be duties of love, annexed with the former public duties of religion, and as well to be used in the Lords day as the other. If this then be not to be done on the Sabbath day, when should we do it? True it is, that with the good servants of God David and Daniel, we take up every day at morning, noontide and evening to praise the Lord, but especially we must remember to speak of these wonderful works of the Lord in the Sabbath: as that 92 Psalm, which is a Psalm of the Sabbath, doth teach us. Thus see, how the Sabbath should wholly from morning to night be spent in these exercises, and therefore is it set apart from all other days, because that worship of God which we do but in part on other days, may now wholly be spent on the Lord.