A02178:2026
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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I. The first Sermon, is of the quenching of the spirit, where he 1teacheth us: 1. That albeit those be worthily condemned, that n•v•r t•sted, nor desire to taste of the spirit of God: yet a more just and fearful condemnation is like to come on them, that having once received it, do• after lose the same. 2. To know whether we have the spirit: he saith, like as he knoweth best, that he hath l•fe, which feeleth it in himself▪ so he best knoweth whether he have the spirit, that fe•eth th• spirit working in himself. Again, he that hath the spirit of Christ, hath some thing in him given him of God by his word, above all that can be attained, by any natural gift or humane industry. 3. T•e spirit often in regeneration, causeth in the spiritual man, a great and general astonishment, for great ••d enormous sins committed: and then it dealeth more particularly, smiting us with a special grief for special sins, 4. Then the spirit teacheth, how the faculties of the so•le are all bent to rebellion against God, and specially how reason fighteth against faith, and is a great patron• of unbelief. 5▪ After all this, the spirit (saith he) bringeth us to se• the unsearchable riches of Christ, and worketh in us that precious faith, whereby •• apprehend our free justification in Christ. And then follows the feeling of joy unspeakable, and that blessed peace of conscience which passeth understanding, judgement is reformed, affections are clean altered, and there will appear in •ll faculties great forwardness, and readiness, to perform things acceptable unto God 6. After some falies of frailty, •f we continue our former hatred of sin, & the oftener w fall conceive the more ddly hatred against sin: if our sorrow for sin increase, if our care continue to prevent and cut off all occasions of sin albeit we slip and fall often, yet we may not say the spirit is quenched. 7. Such as have the greater, and more certain graces of the spirit of regeneration: their