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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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But some will say, had not Jacob wicked children, and David godless sons? And doth1 not daily experience teach us, that wicked men have godly children? Yes: for besides the secret counsel of the Lord herein, we must know that neither the promise of the Lord is so universal, that every particular child of a faithful man should be within the covenant: for if of many there be but one blessed, the promise is performed. Yea which more is, though that a faithful man have never a good child, yet if unto the thousand generation there be but one good, the covenant is not broken. Neither must we tie the Lords work so much to man, that a good man may not have an evil son, seeing though the Lord visit not his sins, yet he may visit the sins of some of the forefathers, to the third and fourth generation going before.
But some will say, had not Iacob wicked children, and Dauid godlesse sonnes? And doth1 not daily experience teach vs, that wicked men haue godly children? Yes: for besides the secret counsel of the Lord herein, we must know that neither the promise of the Lord is so vniuersall, that euery particular childe of a faithfull man should be within the couenant: for if of many there be but one blessed, the promise is performed. Yea which more is, though that a faithfull man haue neuer a good childe, yet if vnto the thousand generation there be but one good, the couenant is not broken. Neither must wee tie the Lords worke so much to man, that a good man may not haue an euil sonne, seeing though the Lord visit not his sinnes, yet hee may visit the sinnes of some of the forefathers, to the third and fourth generation going before.
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To the second I say: that an evil father having a good child, though the Lord show not mercy to that particular man therein, yet he may remember his promise to some of the forefathers in the thousand generation going before. And though that an evil man have no cursed child, yet the curse may be accomplished in the third and fourth generation following. Wherefore not speaking of election or reprobation, which we leave only to the