A02178:1781
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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Notes of a true and upright heart.
Notes of a true and vpright heart.
1 When we are persuaded that God the Father, by the blood of Jesus Christ, and the working of the holy spirit doth cleanse us from our sins. 2 When we are persuaded that the spirit proceeding from the Father and the Son, doth by the word thus cleanse us, and therefore make conscience of all things in the said word, without respect unto mans advice, counsel or commandment, without the same or contrary to the same word of God▪ Respecting, I say, all the Commandments of God, without preferring one before another, labouring to know them, if we do not: and if we do, to do after them according to the measure of grace we have received. 3 When we are truly desirous, and labour to avoid all the outward occasions which might either bring on, foster, or bring us back to any sin we have fallen into, or may fall into hereafter. 4 When we mourn for the very first motions of sin whereunto we have yielded, or we fear we may yield unto hereafter. 5 When we are desirous and labour to use all and every of those means, which God hath ordained in his word to bring us unto purity of heart. 6 When we do all those former things as well secretly by our selves, as before others. 7 When in doing these things we simply and singly seek to approve our selves unto God, without either looking for praise or profit, rebuke or loss from men, not seeking chiefly these outward things at Gods hands: but principally his kingdom and the righteousness thereof. Matth. 6.