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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
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.
Wilt thou then have the one part of this covenant, that is, that God should bless thee in thy seed? then remember thou also the other part, that thou walk before the Lord and be upright. Wilt thou have thy children as the blessed seed of Abraham? teach them with Abraham the commandments of God, pray for them with Abraham that they may live in the sight of the Lord; be ready to offer them with Abraham, that they may be an holy sacrifice to the Lord; It is thou O man, O woman, that mayest do thy child the greatest good and the greatest harm: if thou prayest for him, and repentest for thy self, the Lord will bless thy care, the pastors pains, and the teachers travail. But if thou despisest these duties, the Lord will deny thee those blessings, and the curse of God will be upon thy child at home in thy house, abroad in the Church and in the school. And seeing that the Lord hath promised that he will be thy God, and bless thy seed, if thou be faithful: thou mayest both hope, that thou art of the faithful, if thou have a blessed seed, and fear that thou hast not as yet the blessing of the covenant, when thy seed is cursed.
Wilt thou then haue the one part of this couenant, that is, that God should blesse thee in thy seed? then remember thou also the other part, that thou walke before the Lord and be vpright. Wilt thou haue thy children as the blessed seede of Abraham? teach them with Abraham the commandements of God, pray for them with Abraham that they may liue in the sight of the Lord; be readie to offer them with Abraham, that they may bee an holy sacrifice to the Lord; It is thou O man, O woman, that maiest do thy child the greatest good and the greatest harme: if thou praiest for him, and repentest for thy selfe, the Lord will blesse thy care, the pastors paines, and the teachers trauaile. But if thou despisest these duties, the Lord will denie thee those blessings, and the curse of God will bee vpon thy childe at home in thy house, abroade in the Church and in the schoole. And seeing that the Lord hath promised that hee will bee thy God, and blesse thy seede, if thou bee faithfull: thou maiest both hope, that thou art of the faithfull, if thou haue a blessed seede, and feare that thou hast not as yet the blessing of the couenant, when thy seede is cursed.