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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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the which afterward is repeated and applied unto this end of the Apostle Paul, Rom. the 15. and 21. verse: To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see him, and they that heard not shall understand him: where it is apparent that the ministry of the Word1 is the means to bring us to the knowledge of Christ, and so to his kingdom. The kingdom of God is wholly spiritual, as Romans the 14 and 17. verse. The kingdom of God (saith the Apostle) is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the holy Ghost. And that the kingdom of God consisteth partly of all the graces of the spirit proceeding from this means, it is evident by the 2. of Peter the 1. and 4. verse, &c. Therefore give all diligence thereunto, join virtue with faith, and with virtue knowledge, and with knowledge temperance, and with temperance patience, and with patience godliness, and with godliness brotherly kindness, and with brotherly kindness love: for if these things be among you, and abound, they will make you that you neither shall be idle, nor unfruitful in the ⟨p. 289⟩knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Wherefore brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things, you shall never fall: for by these means an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord, and Saviour Jesus Christ. Thus then we see that the kingdom of God consisteth in these things, as in2 respect of the outward means which is the Word, and in respect of the fruit of these means it consisteth in these graces, which fruit God bestoweth on them which use the means.
the which afterward is repeated and applied vnto this end of the Apostle Paul, Rom. the 15. and 21. verse: To whom hee was not spoken of, they shall see him, and they that heard not shall vnderstand him: where it is apparant that the ministerie of the Word1 is the meanes to bring vs to the knowledge of Christ, and so to his kingdome. The kingdome of God is wholy spirituall, as Romanes the 14 and 17. verse. The kingdome of God (saith the Apostle) is not meate and drinke, but righteousnesse, and peace, and ioy in the holie Ghost. And that the kingdome of God consisteth partly of all the graces of the spirit proceeding from this meanes, it is euident by the 2. of Peter the 1. and 4. verse, &c. Therefore giue all diligence thereunto, ioyne vertue with faith, and with vertue knowledge, and with knowledge temporance, and with temperance patience, and with patience godlinesse, and with godlinesse brotherly kindnesse, and with brotherly kindnesse loue: for if these things bee among you, and abound, they will make you that you neither shall bee idle, nor vnfruitfull in the