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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.
To examine our selves herein: Have we heard the word of God? were we pricked by it? then have we profited: Have we not bin pricked thereby? then as yet are we not a sacrifice for the Lord. For, as was said before, Christ comforteth them that are troubled, he helpeth them that doubt, he easeth them which are in distress, he setteth their feet in the way of peace and gladness, that have long been in darkness and sorrow. Have ye not been sorrowful, and will ye learn a salve for this sore? be sorrowful, that ye were not sorrowful; be pricked in your hearts, because you were not pricked. Have we heard the word? let us examine our selves, if our knowledge1 be the better, if our affections be the holier. As having heard the exposition of the law of God, do we fear God? do we know how to love God? do we pray to God? do we worship God in our souls, and in our bodies more carefully, and in greater conscience than we have done heretofore? Are we not now as profane and careless still in giving the right worship to the true God, as before we were too superstitious, in serving Angels, Saints, and other false gods; neither sorrowing for our Idolatry, nor caring for true religion? Have we not blasphemed, and profaned the name of God in unreverent hearing his word, in unprofitable talking of his works, and abusing his own majesty with swearing and cursing as much as ever we did before we heard his word? Have we kept holy the Sabbath? or have we not profaned it, by open neglect of the word, by playing, sporting,2 drinking, and other vanities? Do we not still send forth our servants to dispatch our business on that day, as if it were the market day, when they may do such things most lawfully? Are not parents, householders, and governors, as slack in provoking obedience; and children, servants and subjects, as slow in yielding obedience as ever they were) parents in the mean time, not seeing that children therefore rebel against them, ⟨p. 285⟩because they rebel against God; nor householders perceive that servants do not their duties to them, because they do not their duty to God? Are we less wrathful, and more merciful? Are we less riotous, and filthy defilers of our flesh? and are we more sober, chaste and holy?
To examine our selues herein: Haue we heard the word of God? were we pricked by it? then haue we profited: Haue wee not bin pricked thereby? then as yet are we not a sacrifice for the Lord. For, as was said before, Christ comforteth them that are troubled, hee helpeth them that doubt, he easeth them which are in distresse, hee setteth their feete in the way of peace and gladnesse, that haue long been in darknes and sorrow. Haue ye not been sorrowfull, and will ye learne a salue for this sore? be sorrowfull, that ye were not sorrowfull; be pricked in your hearts, because you were not pricked. Haue wee heard the word? let vs examine our selues, if our knowledge