A02178:211
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Fear.
Feare.
1 Be never afraid of leaving good undone, least the Lord suffer you to fall into the contrary evil.
1 BEe neuer afraide of leauing good vndone, least the Lord suffer you to fall into the contrarie euill.
2 He thought when he had no fear nor grief, he could not profit.
2 Hee thought when he had no feare nor griefe, he could not profit.
3 Beware of immoderate fear, which rather hinder the certainty of saith, then beat1 down the security of the flesh, and which be the readiest means to pull Gods wrath upon us, in that they be the fruits of unbelief, and such as would tie the grace of God promised, to the present danger and deliverance out of the same. The mean and middle path is, that we should fear and forethinke of evils to come, not as thinking that of necessity they must fall upon us, as though God could not, or would not deliver us from them, but as they, who being guilty in this one, desire to submit themselves to the hand of God, and acknowledge themselves heirs of Gods justice or wrath in this or that evil: yet so as we meet with the Lords mercy, who is both able and willing even then most of all to assist and deliver us, when we most fear, and through this godly fear are reverently humbled under the hand of his Majesty. For if natural parents know then to mitigate the stripes of their correction to their children, when they see in them a mild & meek submission