A02178:1882
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
Part 2 › Treatise 8: A TREATISE OF GODS FEAR.Part 2 › Treatise 8: A TREATISE OF GODS FEARE.
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Seeing the Lord is fain to complain of the small number of such as fear him, we must take order to mitigate this complaint, that it fall not more justly upon us. In the time of Moses at the least there was Joshua and Caleb; in Christs time Simeon and Anna: At the least we must look there be one true worshipper, as in Elijah time, and so doing we shall make the question vain, and surely if we desire to be such, few will put us by our desire: for as our sins be well called an hereditary sickness, which if it were not so, we would purchase them fast enough: so that knowledge and fear of God not being hereditary, are not withstanding cheapened of few men.
Seeing the Lord is faine to complaine of the smal number of such as feare him, we must take order to mitigate this complaint, that it fall not more iustly vpon vs. In the time of Moses at the least there was Iosua and Caleb; in Christs time Simeon and Anna: At the least we must looke there be one true worshipper, as in Elias time, and so doing we shall make the question vaine, and surely if we desire to be such, fewe will put vs by our desire: for as our sinnes be well called an hereditarie sicknesse, which if it were not so, wee would purchase them fast enough: so that knowledge and feare of God not being hereditarie, are not withstanding cheapened of few men.
Great cause there is then why we should fear, it is an act of the everlasting Parliament,1 that we must once die, Hebrews 9. and Job saith that our life is but short, and do we not hear that all of all kinds are gone this way, all wise men, all men of pleasure, no Patriarchs escaped it; no Prophet was exempted, our ears can testify this, do we not daily miss our friends? when Gods wrath hath taken them away, and the grave hath buried them in silence. Do we not daily in coming to the congregation, pass over the graves of men, sufficient monuments of the execution of the general day? Do we not use as a general proverb, as sure as death, and yet the servants of God complain, that we know not the wrath of God. Surely we do not know this for all that, which Moses