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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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This then must be our pedagogy in this point, that as for the glory of God which is deer unto us, we are not to leave the least sin unespied, or the least means unattempted to advance the glory of God. So for the grievousness of sin, for the easiness to fall into sin, for the vileness of corruption which we have observed in our selves, for the knowledge of the wrath of God for sin in us, we are loth, for love, to see our brother either so vilely infected, & so perilously endangered, to go without our loving admonition, both1 ⟨p. 257⟩to draw him out of his sin, and to rescue him from the wrath of God due to his sin.
This then must be our pedagogie in this point, that as for the glory of God which is deere vnto vs, we are not to leaue the least sinne vnespied, or the least meanes vnattempted to aduance the glory of God. So for the grieuousnes of sinne, for the easines to fall into sin, for the vilenes of corruption which we haue obserued in our selues, for the knowledge of the wrath of God for sinne in vs, we are loth, for loue, to see our brother either so vilely infected, & so perillously endangered, to goe without our louing admonition, both1 ⟨p. 257⟩to draw him out of his sinne, and to rescue him from the wrath of God due to his sinne.
- 1Admonition.
Further, this attribute of true zeal maketh us as willing to be admonished, as careful1 to admonish: and that not only of our superiors, which is an easy thing, because it is a thing whereto of necessity we must yield; but also of our inferiors, whom we may seem to contemn. For all men will grant that a child ought willingly to be admonished of his father, or a servant ought obediently to be reprehended of his master: but few will in practise give this, that a father should listen to the advertisement of his son, or that the master should receive an admonition of his servant. Howbeit, Job saith, he