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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.
In the third Commandment, as you are trusted with the glory of God: so you are charged (b•o•h•r) tha• you abuse not his Name, if you be faithful unto the Lord in seeking his glo•ie, and the advancement of his truth, and of the kingdom of Jesus Christ, preferring it in all things as is meet; then surely will the Lord bless you, and prosper your ways: but if you fall away and slide into any heresy, and so dishonour his Majesty; then will God certainly plague you in his wrath, and he will make that which you desire to have greatest comfort in, turn into a curse upon you. And I would have you remember to this end, how God the Lord dealt with wicked Amaziah, who for the *profaning of Gods glory and worship, had the hart of his wife drawn from him, and so to his great reproach became a notorious whore. So likewise my sister, that you dishonour not God, as being a means of withdrawing your husbands heart from the duties of his calling, but nourishing Faith and a good conscience in all things with him: so will the Lord for his own Names sake bless you together. For you shall find it true which he hath spoken: Them that honour me I will honour▪ and them that despise me shall be despised; But beware (I say) that you give2 no occasion of falling away, or back sliding unto your husband, least God also bring shame upon you by him, by giving him over to some sin. I speak not this, as though I doubted ⟨p. 126⟩these things, in either of you both: for I hope of better things of you: but in speaking to you, I admonish my self, wishing that we all take heed, that we fall not as the wicked and sinners into the hand of God: for he will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
In the third Commandement, as you are trusted with the glorie of God: so you are charged (b•o•hr) tha you abuse not his Name, if you be faithfull vnto the Lord in seeking his gloie, and the aduancement of his truth, and of the kingdome of Iesus Christ, preferring it in all things as is meete; then surely will the Lord blesse you, and prosper your wayes: but if you fall away and slide into any heresie, and so dishonor his Maiestie; then will God certainly plague you in his wrath, and he will make that which you desire to haue greatest comfort in, turne into a curse vpon you. And I would haue you remember to this ende, how God the Lord dealt with wicked Amaziah, who for the