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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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Out of this may issue another fruit of right zeal, namely, when we are zealous in their1 behalf who can never recompense us again: for flesh and blood will easily admit to rebuke the injuries, and revenge the oppressions used to men of credit and ability, because it is a wary wisdom to patronage them in lesser things, who can be our patrons again in greater things▪ Thus Job delivered the poor that cried, the fatherless & him that had none to help him, he was the eyes to the blind, the foot to the lame, at whose hands no hope of reward was to be looked for.
Out of this may issue another fruit of right zeale, namely, when we are zealous in their1 behalfe who can neuer recompence vs againe: for flesh and blood will easily admit to rebuke the iniuries, and reuenge the oppressions vsed to men of credit and abilitie, because it is a warie wisedome to patronage them in lesser things, who can be our patrons againe in greater things▪ Thus Iob deliuered the poore that cried, the fatherlesse & him that had none to helpe him, he was the eyes to the blinde, the foote to the lame, at whose hands no hope of reward was to be looked for.
- 1The 6. note zealous in defence of the poor.The 6. note zealous in defence of the poore.
But to draw to the last and most glorious property, this thing in zeal is most commendable,1 when we are humbled in our own souls for those sins which we espy and ⟨p. 259⟩censure in others, even as though we our selves for want of instruction or prayer, were in some sort guilty of their sins. If this rule were received in judgement, and uerenced in practise of Ministers, Magistrates, and masters, when they are to admonish their inferiors of sin, it is sure it would breed in them great conscience and religion. Alas we see many who can mangle and martyr a man for some offence, who never learned for consnce sake to mourn for those infirmities which so bitterly he would inveigh against in others Let us consider this in ministers, how the Apostle saith to the Corinthians: I fear let when I come, m God aase me among you, and I shall bewail many of them which have ned