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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
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The next thing is faith: The word must be mixed with faith: Heb. 42. The word which 1they hear a profited them nothing, because it was not mixed with faith. But all have not faith: therefore the Prophet Isaiah said, Lord who will believe our report? And Luke 18. 18. Suppose ye that the Son of man when he cometh shall find faith on the earth? All the former must be used to refine faith: for as gold before it be pure is seven fold tried in the fire, so faith which is much more precious than gold, must go through all these means.
The next thing is faith: The word must be mixed with faith: Heb. 42. The word which 1they hear a profited them nothing, because it was not mixed with faith. But all haue not faith: therefore the Prophet Esay said, Lord who will beleeue our report? And Luke 18. 18. Suppose ye that the Sonne of man when he commeth shall finde faith on the earth? All the former must be vsed to refine faith: for as gold before it be pure is seuen fold tried in the fire, so faith which is much more precious than gold, must goe through all these meanes.
- 13. Faith.
Faith here is an increase of all that in * preparation. A Merchant must have something1 before he be a Merchant, but he occupieth to increase and get more: so we must believe in Jesus Christ by a general faith going before: but we must use all the forenamed means to increase our knowledge and faith in all particulars. One may be a faithful person generally, and yet an unbeliever in particulars. As Christs Disciples to whom he said, If had faith but as much as a grain of mustard seed, &c. As Abraham, Rebecca, and Zechariah had.