A02178:1637
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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Now thirdly, in that you are taught to believe in God the holy Ghost, it admonisheth you to pray for his teaching, that you may by him be led into all truth, and be further instructed & drawn unto every Christian duty from time to time. The duties are very many to be gathered out of every article, as also out of the several Commandments: but I will only give you a taste, and touch o•ely some one duty, required of you in every one of them. In that you believe that there is an universal Church and Communion of Saints,1 you must be diligent to approve your selves one to each other, that you are parts and members thereof: and further the gra•es that God hath bestowed upon either of you, must be common in the use thereof to each other: so again, you must sustain the infirmities one of another. Finally, you must provoke and st•re up o•e another, that your Faith may be strengthened, and your selves comforted against all other griefs, by the assurance you shall have wrought in you concerning the forgiveness of sins, wherein your happiness doth consist: as also in the hope of the resurrection of your bodies, and the continual meditation of eternal life.
Now thirdly, in that you are taught to belieue in God the holie Ghost, it admonisheth you to pray for his teaching, that you may by him be led into all truth, and be further instructed & drawne vnto euery Christian dutie frō time to time. The duties are very many to be gathered out of euery article, as also out of the seuerall Commandements: but I will onely giue you a taste, and touch o•ely some one dutie, required of you in euerie one of them. In that you belieue that there is an vniuersall Church and Communion of Saints,1 you must bee diligent to approoue your selues one to each other, that you are parts and members thereof: and further the gra•es that God hath bestowed vpon either of you, must be common in the vse thereof to each other: so againe, you must sustaine the infirmities one of another. Finallie, you must prouoke and st•re vp oe another, that your Faith may be strengthened, and your selues comforted against all other grifes, by the assurance you shall haue wrought in you concerning the forgiuenes of sinnes, wherein your happines doth consist: as also in the hope of the resurrection of your bodies, and the continuall meditation of eternall life.