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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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how the Corinthians were moved with strange tongues: but yet had not in admiration the word. Besides, he showeth by comparing the gift of tongues and prophesying together▪ that if an Infidel or unlearned man should come, and hear them speak with strange tongues, he would say, they were out of their1 wits: but if he should hear them speak the word of God plainly, he would be rebuked of all men and judged of all men, and so the secrets of his heart should be made manifest, he would fall down on his face and worship God and say plainly, when he feeleth his sins, they rifle mine heart, they show my secret sins, doubtless this is Gods doing, God is in them, I will follow this religion. Wherefore in this appeareth the power of the word,2 in that it citeth and summoneth our consciences before the tribunal of God, and woundeth us with a lively feeling of Gods judgement, that he, who before through security did despise sound doctrine, may now be constrained to give the glory unto God. This appeareth more plainly, Hebr. 4. 12. where it is said, that the word of God is lively, mighty in 3operation, and sharper than any two edged sword, and it pierceth through, and searcheth the most secret chambers of the soul, and divideth thought from thought: and then all our holiness shall seem hypocrisy, all our righteousness shall seem as a defiled cloth: we shall find with Paul, that in us, that is, in our flesh, dwelleth no righteousness. For mens consciences are4 cold, neither are they touched and displeased with their evils, so long as they be in ignorance: but when the word of God pierceth into the uttermost corners of their consciences, and telleth them, that they have to do with the Lord; they are throughly touched and begin to fear, and entering into themselves, examining their conscience, they come to the knowledge of that, which before they had forgotten. We can never be offered to God without his spirit, John 16. vers. 8. For he reproveth the world of sin, and awaketh