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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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Grace of God.
1 HE feeling on a time the grace of God assisting him in a thing which of himself he despaired of, said: Oh how easy are the ways of man, whilst the Lord doth govern him, and how is he beset as with a hedge of thorns, when the Lord doth not assist him.
1 HE feeling on a time the grace of God assisting him in a thing which of himselfe he despaired of, said: Oh how easie are the waies of man, whilest the Lord doth gouerne him, and how is he beset as with a hedge of thornes, when the Lord doth not assist him.
2 As we are careful to use the means of our salvation, so must we wholly refer the blessing of the means to the grace of God: neither, as some do, think that we can obtain1 or continue the graces of God in us without using the means, (for that is but a dream of fantastical spirits) neither, as the manner of some is, so to trust to the means, as neglecting to pray for the grace of God in them: which is but a preposterous zeal of such as are not rightly instructed in the way of their salvation.
2 As we are carefull to vse the meanes of our saluation, so must we wholy referre the blessing of the meanes to the grace of God: neither, as some doe, thinke that we can obtaine1