A02178:1932
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 11: A TREATISE OF BLESSEDNESS.Part 2 › Treatise 11: A TREATISE OF BLESSEDNES.
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The formal cause is the illumination, of God his spirit, making us capable of the former1 mysteries, sealing them to us with such assurance in our hearts, that we dare boldly cry Abba Father, that we dare boldly say, If God be on our side, who can stand against us? Such blindness, folly, and incredulity possesseth us by nature, that of our selves we can neither see into these mysteries of our salvation, nor believe the thing we see concerning our comfort until we have received of this Spirit, which cometh from above. For none cometh to Christ, unless the father draw him; and how draweth he but by enlightening the hearts of2 his elect by the holy Ghost, Joh. 6. 44? Wherefore seeing these things are not revealed unto us, but by the Spirit, 1. Corinth. 2. 14. we end with that blessing of the Lord Jesus to Peter, Matth. 16. 17. Blessed art thou Simon, thou son of Jonah: for flesh and blood hath not opened this unto thee, but my father which is in heaven.3
The formal cause is the illumination, of God his spirit, making vs capable of the former1 mysteries, sealing them to vs with such assurance in our hearts, that wee dare boldly crye Abbafather, that wee dare boldly say, If God bee on our side, who can stand against vs? Such blindnesse, folly, and incredulitie possesseth vs by nature, that of our selues we can neither see into these mysteries of our saluatiō, nor beleeue the thing we see concerning our comfort vntill we haue receiued of this Spirit, which cōmeth from aboue. For none commeth to Christ, vnlesse the father draw him; and how draweth he but by inlightening the hearts of2 his elect by the holy Ghost, Ioh. 6. 44