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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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Hereunto we must join the particular providence of God, which if we can be once1 throughly persuaded of, then shall we easily overcome the grief of all our wants. Hath the Lord made any thing in vain? hath he not made all things for his glory? Then if we believe that he hath made our bodies, shall we not also believe that he will provide for them, seeing the creation thereof is more wonderful, than the preservation is? as appeareth, Psalm. 29. 139. Hath he care over the wicked to do them good, and will he not much more rejoice over his children to do them good? If the Lord loved us when we were his2 enemies, will he not provide for us being redeemed by the blood of his son? Did he good unto us when we sought him not, and will he not much more when we seek him by prayer in the blood of his Son, as he hath commanded? If he hath done us good when he might have punished us for our sins, will he not be much more favourable unto us now, seeing he hath by his holy spirit sanctified us? O that men had hearts to believe this, they would then give glory unto God in their distresses, putting their trust in him, & looking for help at his hands in his convenient time. This providence of God must be confirmed3 unto us by the examples of Gods children in all ages, whose examples are set down in the Scriptures, that we by them might learn patience. If the fathers before the flood eating nothing but herbs, yet lived some 700. years, some 800. some 900. years, and some more; shall we not learn thereby, that man liveth not by these means? And again,4 if he nourished them 900. years, and that with hea••es, we may be sure he will feed us 90. years with flesh and fish, and other greater means. When he fed the Israelites forty years with Manna from heaven, which after such a sort was never seen before, whereof if they reserved any without the Lords commandment, if straightway putrefied and was corrupted: but when by the commandment of God it was kept before the testimony, it was not corrupted. The Lord left us a lesson that we must learn thereby, namely, that it is not the means, but the blessing of God upon the means, that nourisheth us: and therefore if we have them, we must not put our trust in them: and if we want them, we must not distrust in God. Did Moses and Elijah live forty days without meat?