A02178:1558
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.
If he cannot get you to follow the Epicurism1 of the world, as Libertines in diet and apparel; he will make you so precise, as to think it a heinous sin, to eat one bit of meat, or to wear one rag of cloth more than for necessity. How needful therefore it is to sail with an even course, we may conjecture by other things which will bewray the corruption of our nature.
If he cannot get you to follow the Epicurisme1 of the world, as Libertines in diet and apparell; he will make you so precise, as to thinke it a hainous sinne, to eate one bit of meate, or to weare one rag of cloath more than for necessitie. How needfull therefore it is to saile with an euen course, we may coniecture by other things which will bewray the corruption of our nature.
- 1Note.
In the time of a plague we shall see some will be so bold, that without any lawful calling1 or godly warrant, they will rush into places infected; and then falling sick, their conscience pricks them for their tempting of God by an unadvised boldness, in the hour of their death.
In the time of a plague we shall see some will be so bold, that without any lawfull calling1 or godly warrant, they will rush into places infected; and then falling sicke, their conscience prickes them for their tempting of God by an vnaduised boldnes, in the houre of their death.
- 1Boldness in plague.