A02178:4161
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. XXV. Of the exercises of religion, fasting, &c. and of the careful use of the means at all times.
CHAP. XXV. Of the exercises of religion, fasting, &c. and of the carefull vse of the meanes at all times.
WE must not tarry to fast until the trumpet be blown, and the bell be rung:1 but we must fall down at the trumpet of Gods word, and at the bell of our guilty conscience: for without this private exercise we are but hypocrites in public fasts.
WE must not tarie to fast vntill the trumpet be blowne, and the bell be rung:1 but we must fall downe at the trumpet of Gods word, and at the bel of our guiltie conscience: for without this priuate exercise we are but hypocrites in publike fasts.
- 1He means for religious fasts: & not gainsaying any thing the civill fasts commanded by law for navigation sakeHe meanes for religious fasts: & not gainsaying any thing the ciuill fasts commanded by law for nauigation sake
2 Our holy days may be the fittest & most convenient times for fasting days: because we may then best redeem the time in resting from our calling.