A02178:1645
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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Here also I must by the way admonish you of one other thing, which I had forgotten before, and that is this; your love must spring from that reverence & fear that you must yield unto your husband: for true love is mixed as it were with these two: and this is a special1 duty, & often repeated in the Scripture, that the wife must fear the Husband. So that you see (Sister) that you must not look to have your Husband at your beck for your love: but you must render due benevolence unto each other. For as the body of the Husband is not his own, but his wives: so is not the woman's her own, but her husbands: for they are both one flesh, as the Scripture doth teach.
Heere also I must by the way admonish you of one other thing, which I had forgotten before, and that is this; your loue must spring from that reuerence & feare that you must yeeld vnto your husband: for true loue is mixt as it were with these two: and this is a speciall1 dutie, & often repeated in the Scripture, that the wife must feare the Husband. So that you see (Sister) that you must not looke to haue your Husband at your becke for your loue: but you must render due beneuolence vnto each other. For as the bodie of the Husband is not his owne, but his wiues: so is not the womans her owne, but her husbands: for they are both one flesh, as the Scripture doth teach.
- 1True love.True loue.
Now, if any do object, that this is the way to bring women into bondage, and to be as drudges to their Husbands, if they should in this manner be subject unto them. No, no, it is not so, but the most readiest way to procure unto themselves grace, peace of conscience, and more sweet liberty; whilst they live in obedience to God, and his holy ordinances. And therefore the spirit of God admonisheth all women, that they be not afraid of any such vain terror.