A02178:1924
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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saith after, I am afraid that when I come, the Lord do humble me, and I shall bewail many that have sinned▪ contrariwise he describeth fleshly anger to be such, as puffeth men up, when they see the sins of their brethren.
saith after, I am afraid that when I come, the Lord doe humble me, and I shall bewaile many that haue sinned▪ contrariwise hee describeth fleshly anger to be such, as puffeth men vp, when they see the sinnes of their brethren.
Now that we may come to have an holy anger wrought in us for sin, it is needful that we labour for that affection which was in the Prophet David when he saith, The rebukes of 1them that rebuke thee, have fallen upon me. Where the Prophet showeth, that every sin which was committed against God, he thought that it was committed against himself: and was as grieved and angry therewith, because the glory of God (which was committed to his care) was stained, and God himself dishonoured; and this did make him angry and zealous in the cause of the Lord: and this zeal must be also in us. Which that it may be tempered, and not too rigorous, we ought▪ also to consider how the Apostle Paul applieth the2 same place, when he would exhort them to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to deal over sharply with them: he bringeth the example of Christ, who suffered for the sins of the people, as for his own, and so accounted of them: So then we ought to think, that the sins which by our brethren are committed, are committed of us▪ and are ours: which if we can do, it will much abate rigour and sharp dealing in admonition, as also in the punishment of sin. The Apostle in another place saith, Bear y• one another's burden, and so fulfil the measure of Christ. Now if we shall join these two affections together in us first to think, that every sin committed against Gods majesty, is committed against us and again, that every sin which our brother doth, we in our own persons do the same: the first will breed in us an anger and zeal for the glory of God: the other will work in us patience and compassion, because of our own flesh, and of the Image of God, which