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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.
Day unto day uttereth the same, and night unto night teacheth knowledge. 3. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. 4. Their line is gone forth through all the earth, and their words into the ends of the world: in them hath he set a tabernacle for the Sun. 5. Which cometh forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber, and rejoiceth like a mighty man to run his race. 6. His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his compass is unto the ends of the same, and none is hid from the heat thereof.
Day vnto day vttereth the same, and night vnto night teacheth knowledge. 3. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. 4. Their line is gone forth through all the earth, and their words into the ends of the world: in them hath hee set a tabernacle for the Sunne. 5. Which commeth forth as a bridegrome out of his chamber, and reioyceth like a mighty man to run his race. 6. His going out is from the ende of the heauen, and his compasse is vnto the endes of the same, and none is hid from the heat thereof.
The Prophet Isaiah. chap. 1. 2. 3. saith, Hear, O heavens, and hearken, O earth, &c. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his masters crib: but Israel hath not known: my people hath not understanding. In which place we are schooled of insensible creatures, how we should do1 our duty unto God. Wherefore it is good to consider, how in six days we have had our •east obedient unto us, and how disobedient we are to the Lord. O God how have thy creatures attended on us, when we speak to them, they heard us, when we did whip them, they followed us, in all our business they attended on us, and yet we have not listened to the calling us by the word, we have not profited by thy chastisements, nor attended upon thy commandments. The stork, saith the Lord by Jeremiah the prophet, knoweth his time, but my people knoweth not me. And experience may make us blush to see, how the birds against the stormy winter may convey themselves unto warmer climates until the spring time, and man alone either unsensibly doth not foresee, or unadvisedly will not