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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
Part 3 › Sermon 2: OF MURMURING THE SECOND SERMON.Part 3 › Sermon 2: OF MVRMVRING THE SECOND SERMON.
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Exodus 16. 2. And all the congregation of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron.
MANY men nowadays hearing the often murmurings of the children of Israel,1 do even spit at them, and account them as the worst people under the Sun, which would so often and so obstinately rebel against the Lord. But these men do little consider either the temptations, wherewith the Israelites were provoked to murmur, ⟨p. 250⟩or the corruption of their own hearts, which will as bitterly murmur upon less occasion. For albeit they were an obstinate and stiff necked people, as Moses witnesseth of them, ever since they came out of Egypt until now: yet here no doubt they were vehemently tempted, when they from the plenty of all things, which in Egypt they enjoyed, were brought into a rough & desert wilderness, being six hundred thousand men, besides women and children, & great store of cattle, having neither meat nor drink, wherewith they might be nourished. Wherefore let us cease to wonder at this people, and let us in them see our own corruption, & we shall find it to be as great as ever theirs was. For do not many men, I pray you, even among us, beholding the riches of others, or the plenty of things which the Lord bestoweth upon his Magistrates, or ministers, for the faithful discharge of their duties, do they not, I say, murmur against Gods servants set over them?2 And are they not more grieved for the want of such things, than thankful for that the Lord hath freed them from such troubles, which others have, or given them sufficient to live upon? True it is, notwithstanding the greatness of this peoples temptation, yet their sin was wicked in them, and great and heinous in the sight of God, because that whereas they had often times manifold ways▪ & after a wonderful manner felt and tasted of the goodness of the Lord, in so much that the very unthankfullest of them all, had been driven to confess it: (for wonderful was their deliverance out of Egypt, so miraculous was their preservation at the red sea, and infinite mercies more above hope and expectation bestowed upon them) yet now forgetting all his former benefits, would so grudge and murmur for the want of meat, that rather than they would continue still, they would wish again to return to bondage. And indeed such is the nature of murmuring, that it will