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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 5: OF HUMILITY. THE FIFTH SERMON.Part 3 › Sermon 5: OF HVMILITIE. THE FIFTH SERMON.
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This humility was in Abraham, Isaac, Moses, David, Daniel, Azariah, Sidrach, Abednego, 1and others of the Saints and servants of God. Abraham when he was most ready to offer up his son, even then the Lord gave him his son again. David when he was prepared to surrender both life and living to the Lord, obtained both life and kingdom for longer time. At what time Hezekiah had resigned himself to dye at the will of the Lord, the Lord gave him his health again, and made him as it were a lease of his life for fifteen years to come. And surely there is no readier way to obtain life, than to offer our selves unto2 death: no better mean to avoid sickness, poverty, reproach, or banishment, than to have our wills wholly resigned to Gods will, as willing to bear the cross as to be freed from it. For as the more we strive against the will of God, the less we prevail: so the sooner we yield, we shall the sooner be delivered. And yet I mean not that yielding which the Lord by his threatenings or judgements, as by strong hand getteth of us, which is no voluntary submission, but a violent subjection, and constraineth us rather than allureth us to obey the will of the Lord: but I mean that willing humbling of our selves before the face of God, which cometh from an hart bleeding at the conscience of his own unworthiness, and bruised with the sense of the Lords undeserved goodness: and that more kindly, than if it were threatened with all the judgements of the wicked, and were brayed and broken with all the plagues of hell.
This humilitie was in Abraham, Isaac, Moses, Dauid, Daniel, Azariah, Sidrach, Abedn•go, 1and others of the Saints and seruants of God. Abraham when hee was most readie to offer vp his sonne, euen then the Lord gaue him his sonne againe. Dauid when he was prepared to surrender both life and liuing to the Lord, obtained both life and kingdome for longer time. At what time Ezekiah had resigned himselfe to dye at the will of the Lord, the Lord gaue him his health againe, and made him as it were a lease of his life for fifteene yeeres to come. And surely there is no readier way to obtaine life, than to offer our selues vnto2