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,…

And it shall come to pass. This importeth the time of the Gospel, and here is showed a difference between the time of the Law, and of the Gospel. If our fathers were heard under the Law, if they received not the repulse in the dawning of the day; what may we hope for under the Gospel, what boldness may we receive now, when the sun shineth out at the fullness? Look what proof they had, we may have more; see what experience they had, we may have it in greater measure, because what they had confirmed, we have confirmed. The Lord requireth of us now to trust in him the more, & we must remember that saying of our Saviour Christ, Joh. 16. 24. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my Name, ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full▪ If our fathers prayed fervently, why do not we? have not we mo deeds of God his favour? have not we mo promises? have not we mo examples? all which accuse us of want of zeal in prayer. In the old Testament they named not Christ, we are bold to look upon God in Christ his Sonne. Woe then be to us, if these things do not move us, seeing Christ standeth on the right hand of God the Father, who is not now in the loins of Abraham, or in the womb of the Virgin, or in the bowels of the ⟨p. 240⟩earth; bu• •o, as •••• ••even we may see him sitting in heaven on the right hand of GOD. The circumstance remaining is in this word, whosoever: which showeth that whether it be man or woman, master or servant, young or old, Jew or Gentile, no age, no sex, no estate, no condition is excluded. True it is, that there be privileges of the man above the woman, of the master above his servant, of the elders above the younger: but this is in some things, not in all. For in the worship of God, in the matter of God his glory, and our salvation, there is no respect of persons with God; but, whosoever calleth upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved. In respect whereof we are to be exhorted, that if we will rejoice in this privilege, we must use the means due to them that are within the precincts of it, we must not excuse our selves, and say; I am a woman, and the weaker vessel, I am a young man and reckless, I am an old man & forgetful, I am a servant, and am not at mine own liberty. For if we look for the grace offered, we must use the means proposed.