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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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But let us come to the children of God, who have in some degree felt this wound of mind; and it will appear both in the members and in the head, of all burdens to be a thing most intolerable, to sustain a wounded conscience. And to beg•••e, let us set in the first rank I•b, that man of God commended unto us by the hol•• Ghost, for a mirror of patience: who although for h•s riches he was the wealthiest man in the land of1 H•z; for his authority, might have made afraid a great multitude; and for his substance, was the greatest of all the men in the East: yet when the Sabeans came violently and took away his Cattle; when the fire of God falling from heaven, burnt up his sheep and his Servants: when the Chaldeans had taken away his Camels, when a great wind smo•e down his house upon his children, although indeed he rent his garments, which was not so much for impatience, as to show that he was not senseless in these evils: yet it is said that he worshipping, blessed the Name of the Lord, saying: N•ked came I out of my mothers womb and •••ed shall I return again: The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away, blessed •ee the Name of the Lord. But behold, when at the strange conference of his comfortless friends, his mind began to be aghast, which was not so in all his former trial; when his conscience began to be troubled, when he saw the Lord fasten in him sharp arrows, and to set him up as a B••te to shoot at; when he thought God caused him to possess the sins of his youth: this glorious pattern of patience could not bear his grief; he was heavy, and now •ani• commend the image of a wounded spirit, to all that come after. David, 2a man chosen according to the Lords own heart: Eze•••h, a pure worshipper of God, and careful restorer of true religion: Jeremiah, the Prophet of the Lord, sanctified and ordained to that office, before he was formed in his mothers womb, were rate and singular in the graces and favour of God: