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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
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for so long as thy sorrow increaseth for thy sins, it cannot be thought that sin and the flesh, have overcome & utterly quenched the spirit in thee. Thirdly, try thy care: and1 if thou grow in a godly care, both how thou mayest be able to wage battle against sin in the plain field, & how thou mayest prevent sin in all his policies, then thou hast a further assurance, that sin, although it be as great as Goliath, yet it hath not hitherto prevailed against thy poor and little David, I say, against those few and small graces, which the good spirit of God hath bestowed upon thee. But the last is most certain, and that is this: When thou art careful to redeem that, which by the fall thou hast lost, and hast a2 care to run so much faster forward, by how much more thou hast been letted by thy3 fall; then it doth appear that the spirit is in thee, yea it is lively and mighty in operation, and such as shall never be taken from thee, until the day of Christ.
for so long as thy sorrow encreaseth for thy sinnes, it cannot be thought that sinne and the flesh, haue ouercome & vtterly quenched the spirit in thee. Thirdly, trie thy care: and1 if thou growe in a godly care, both how thou maist be able to wage battell against sinne in the plaine field, & how thou maist preuent sinne in all his policies, then thou hast a further assurance, that sinne, although it be as great as Goliah, yet it hath not hitherto preuailed against thy poore and little Dauid, I say, against those few and small graces, which the good spirit of God hath bestowed vpon thee. But the last is most certaine, and that is this: When thou art carefull to redeeme that, which by the fall thou hast lost, and hast a2 care to runne so much faster forward, by how much more thou hast been letted by thy3 fall; then it doth appeare that the spirit is in thee, yea it is liuely and mightie in operation, and such as shall neuer be taken from thee, vntill the day of Christ.