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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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By this we see that the Ministers are the porters of heaven, and that they have the keys of the kingdom of heaven, as the Apostles had. Of this kingdom our Saviour Christ speaketh, Matth. 23 13. where he reproveth the Scribes and Pharisees, saying: Woe be unto you Interpreters of the Law, for you have shut up the kingdom of heaven before men, for ye your selves go not in neither suffer ye them that would enter to come in. What these keys be, our Saviour Christ showeth, Luke the 11. the 52. saying: Woe be unto you Interpreters of the Law, for ye have taken away the key of knowledge, ye enter not in your selves, and them that came in the forbade. Of this kingdom our Saviour also speaketh, Matth. 9. vers. 35. And Jesus went about all cities and towns▪ teaching in the Synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of the kingdom. And in the 10. of Luke the 10. and 11. verses, our Saviour Christ biddeth his Disciples to go and preach: but if they will not receive you, go your ways out of the streets of those cities and towns, and say, Even the dust that eleaveth on us of your city, we wipe off against you: notwithstanding know this that the kingdom of God was come near unto you. And in Luk. 17. 21. when the Pharisees asked Christ a question when the kingdom of Christ should come, he answered them and said: The kingdom of God cometh not by observation and glorious signs, neither shall men say, lo here, and lo there, for the kingdom of God behold 1it is among you. And here we must beware of these translations who have it thus translated, the kingdom of God is within you: for we must not think that the kingdom of God was in every one of the Scribes and Pharisees, but that it was amongst them; so that every one is not the kingdom of God, as the Family of love teacheth. And in Matthew 21. vers. 43. Christ speaking unto the unthankful Jews, saith: The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and shall be given unto a nation that shall bring forth fruit. Where we see that the kingdom of God is taken for the ministry of the Word, and the application of the kingdom of God unto us: and here we are to know that by these means of the ministry of the Word, as Fasting, Prayer, &c. the kingdom of God is offered unto us: but these are not the kingdom, but the means to bring us thereunto, as is evident by Isaiah 52. vers 14.