A02178:1614
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
Part 2 › THE MARKS OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN.Part 2 › THE MARKES OF A RIGHTEOVS MAN.
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Such is the state of many Protestants, who will condemn whoredom, & yet be covetous,1 yea they will do great things, but will not be brought to glorify God in their callings: which showeth their religion to be vain, & their hearts full of hypocrisy. And yet this rule may have exceptions: for we do neither know all good nor all evil at the first, much less love the one and hate the other, as we ought: yea, we see many sins which as yet we cannot come out of as we should. Again, there may be sins of frailty, although not of presumption: but yet if we be not grieved for these, and displeased with our selves, when by any one we are overtaken, and hate sin, and love goodness, when the Lord doth reveal it unto us; we keep an evil conscience, and our corruption shall be discovered: for in that measure we like of sin, in that measure is hypocrisy in us: and if the oftener we sin the more we be grieved, it is a sign of uprightness, and then there is hope to recover the fall, for this worketh a care and strife to come our of sin, and at the last a recovery: but in the hypocrite contrary.
Such is the state of many Protestants, who will condemne whoredome, & yet be couetous,1 yea they will doe great things, but will not be brought to glorifie God in their callings: which sheweth their religion to be vaine, & their hearts full of hypocrisie. And yet this rule may haue exceptions: for we doe neither know all good nor all euill at the first, much lesse loue the one and hate the other, as we ought: yea, we see many sinnes which as yet we cannot come out of as we should. Againe, there may be sinnes of frailtie, although not of presumption: but yet if we be not grieued for these, and displeased with our selues, when by any one we are ouertaken, and hate sinne, and loue goodnesse, when the Lord doth reueile it vnto vs; we keepe an euill conscience, and our corruption shall be discouered: for in that measure we like of sinne, in that measure is hypocrisie in vs: and if the oftner we sinne the more we be grieued, it is a signe of vprightnesse, and then there is hope to recouer the fall, for this worketh a care and strife to come our of sinne, and at the last a recouerie: but in the hypocrite contrarie.
- 1False hearted Protestants.