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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
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.
Cause good.
1 There is no greater enemy to a good cause, than he that by evil means doth both handle and maintain it.
1 THere is no greater enemie to a good cause, than he that by euill meanes doth both handle and maintaine it.
2 He said that men must profit by this, if having had good causes in hand, they have had ill success: because herein it pleaseth God often to deny that unto us justly, which men deny unto us unjustly, either for that he correcteth some sin, wherein they live, or else for that they used not prayer, but trusted too much in the means, and not in God.
2 He said that men must profit by this, if hauing had good causes in hand, they haue had ill successe: because herein it pleaseth God often to denie that vnto vs iustly, which men denie vnto vs vniustly, either for that he correcteth some sinne, wherein they liue, or else for that they vsed not prayer, but trusted too much in the meanes, and not in God.