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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
Part 2 › Treatise 8: A TREATISE OF GODS FEAR.Part 2 › Treatise 8: A TREATISE OF GODS FEARE.
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Hereof it is, that because we are not displeased with our selves for our sins, God is displeased with us; because we mislike not our corruptions, God showeth his misliking of them; because we are not angry with our selves, God is angry with us. Sin deserveth wrath, and sin must have wrath either at our hands or at▪ the Lords hands. If we be wrathful with our selves, and take an indignation with our own selves, as 2. Cor. 7. the Lord will remit his wrath; if we will judge our selves, God will not judge us.
Hereof it is, that because we are not displeased with our selues for our sinnes, God is displeased with vs; because we mislike not our corruptions, God sheweth his misliking of them; because we are not angrie with our selues, God is angrie with vs. Sinne deserueth wrath, and sinne must haue wrath either at our hands or at▪ the Lords hands. If we be wrathfull with our selues, and take an indignation with our own selues, as 2. Cor. 7. the Lord will remit his wrath; if we will iudge our selues, God will not iudge vs.
If at any time we come to judge of Gods wrath, we account of it as of an impotent1 thing: wrath doth work, the wrath of the least doth move, and I would we feared the ⟨p. 198⟩wrath of the Lord as much as we do the wrath of Princes. But we think of Gods wrath as of his mercy, we fear him as one of silly anger and small power, we thank him for his mercies as a niggardly God, and pinching giver. When we deal in duties to Godward, we cut them, we mince with him, we measure and stint him, as though we would be even with him: but when it comes to our wickedness, we are both large and bold: we do as men that thought the Lord was either blind, and could not see our doing, or as though his arms were bound up in a clout that he could not strike us. The weakness of God is stronger than any strong thing in man,