A02178:1847
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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Abraham at God his commandment is ready to offer up his son Isaac, in whom all the promises were to be accomplished, neither was he hindered by unbelief: & why? The Apostle saith, Heb. 11. 19. He considered, that God was able to raise him up even from 1the dead, from whence he received him also after a sort: neither would he tie the power of God to ordinary means. Thus we see he overcame all unbelief by faith in the resurrection. What if we consider, how mightily the Lord restored and multiplied his Church, after he had overflowed the whole earth with water? What if we call to mind the mighty preservation of the Church, in delivering them through the red sea, when the waters dividing themselves stood as a wall on either side of the Israelites? What if we consider how mightily the Lord conducted his people safely thorough the wilderness forty years, giving them Manna from heaven, water out of the rock, healing them that were stung of Serpents, with the beholding of a dead Serpent, and preserving their apparel, that it was not worn in so long a time? Shall we not think that the same God is able to raise the bodies of his Saints out of the earth? It is recorded, 2. King. 4. 36. that Elisha, the man of God, restored to the Shunamite her son being dead: and 2. King. 13. 21. we read that a dead man being cast into the sepulchre of Elisha, and touching his bones, revived, and stood upon his feet. Did God thus confirm the doctrine of Elisha, and will he not much more confirm the doctrine of his dear Son? Could Elisha by the power of God give life unto others, & shall not the Lord advance his own person in himself, at the last day? Daniel 3. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refusing to serve the false gods, and the golden Image, which Nebuchadnezzar had set up, who might have had policy to have kept their faith to themselves, as our Familists do now adays, were cast into the hot fiery furnace, and yet by belief in God were so preserved from it, that the fire had no power over their bodies, not an hair of their head was burnt, neither were their coats changed, nor any smell of fire came upon them.