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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 3: OF ZEAL. THE THIRD SERMON.Part 3 › Sermon 3: OF ZEALE. THE THIRD SERMON.
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These men being so zealous to others, but only through some secret love of the world, when they had that they sought for, made known their hollow and rotten zeal, in that without any grief of conscience, they could rush into a profound worldliness, and without all godly sorrow, could a•ter they had satisfied their greedy and fleshly zeal, n•t only more hardly •eare up their own consciences, but also be so changed that they sow up thei• lips, and •pare their words from speaking in the like manner again to others, and so are neither zealous to themselves nor others. True zeal casteth the first stone at our selves, and plucketh the1 beam out of our own eyes, that we may the better draw the more out of another's eye. And this is the condemnation of the world, that every man can pr•e, and make a privy search into the wants of others but they account the same wants no wants in themselves. The father saith, thus the child d•th: so the child saith, in this duty doth his father fail: the husband knoweth what the wife should do; the wife seeth the duties of her husband: we think in this particular another should behave himself; but yet the father repenteth not of the sins which he did being a child, the child repenteth not of his sins being a father, we call not in our consciences for those things which we dare challenge and one out for in others.
These men being so zealous to others, but onely through some secret loue of the world, when they had that they sought for, made knowne their hollow and rotten zeale, in that without any griefe of conscience, they could rush into a profound worldlinesse, and without all godly sorrow, could a•ter they had satisfied their greedie and fieshly zeale, n•t onely more hardly •eare vp their owne consciences, but also be so chaunged that they sowe vp thei• lippes, and •pare their words from speaking in the like manner againe to others, and so are neither zealous to themselues nor others. True zeale casteth the first stone at our selues, and plucketh the