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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 punishment which God threateneth to that country where this precept is neglected, is the plague of fire, Jere. 17. 27. And to keep the Sabbath, buying, and selling therein,1 is the Sabbath of the men of Ashdod, and Tyre. Nehe. 13. If we must cease from our vocation wherein God hath placed us, and the works thereof, then must we cease from feasting, games, fairs, and such like of less necessity, of greater impediment for the Sabbath: such is the Sabbath of the golden calf, Exod. 32. 6. And if we must abstain from2 those things which in themselves are not evil, then from surfeiting, idleness, doing of our own wills, and which at no times are lawful: otherwise it is the devils Sabbath, & not the Lords, Es. 58. 13. Neither must we think if we precisely keep the bodily rest, and put on our best apparel, that we have satisfied our duty: for as bodily labour, so bodily rest profiteth nothing, 1. Tim. 4 8. Therefore we must take heed that our rest end in sanctification, or else our Ox and our Ass• keep as good a Sabbath as we.
The punishment which God threatneth to that countrey where this precept is neglected, is the plague of fire, Iere. 17. 27. And to keepe the Sabbath, buying, and selling therein,1 is the Sabbath of the men of Ashdod, and Tyrus. Nehe. 13. If we must cease from our vocation wherein God hath placed vs, and the workes thereof, then must we cease from feasting, games, faires, and such like of lesse necessitie, of greater impediment for the Sabbath: such is the Sabbath of the golden calfe, Exod. 32. 6. And if we must abstaine from2