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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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And herein I endeavour my self, to have alway a clear conscience toward God, and toward men. What is more largely proved and confirmed than this, 1. Cor. 15. 10. in the whole chapter throughout? Besides, 2. Cor. 5 10. We must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ, saith the Apostle, that every one may receive the things that are done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or evil. Philip. 3. 21. it is said, that Christ shall change our vile bodies, the place is set down before. The manner and end of this resurrection is also set down, 1. Thes. 4. 14. 15. 16. 17. If we believe (saith Paul) that Jesus is dead and is risen, even so them which sleep in Jesus, will God bring with him. 15. For this say we unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which live, and are remaining to the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which sleep. 16. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, &c. The Epistle to the Hebrews, chapter 11. painteth out the manifold martyrdoms of the saints, and showeth how some were racked, and would not be delivered, others were tried by mock• and scourgings, by bands and imprisonments, they were stoned, they were hewen in sunder, they were tempted and so forth, and why did they endure these things? The Apostle telleth us, verse. 35. That they might receive a better resurrection, than any deliverance they could have here. Again, verse. 39. These obtained not the promise, that is, not the accomplishment of the promises, verse. 40. Why? God providing a 1better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect, for even the first member of Christ dying many thousand years ago, shall not receive the fullness of the promise, that is, in body and soul, until the last member be ready. But of all places most excellent are these, 2. Pet. 3. 10. The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in the which the heavens 2