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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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When our Saviour Christ saith, that it is as possible for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God, as it is for a Camel to go through the eye of a needle: O this is a fearful saying: but again it is a great comfort, when he saith, that with man this is unpossible, but with God all things are possible. It seemeth to a covetous man to be a very hard thing to depart from any thing, but when Christ Jesus shall be the mighty work of his spirit truly touch the heart of Zacheus, he can make him willingly to give half of his goods unto the poor, and if that he hath immured any man, to restore the same four fold.
When our Sauiour Christ saith, that it is as possible for a rich man to enter into the kingdome of God, as it is for a Cammell to goe thorowe the eye of a needle: O this is a fearefull saying: but againe it is a great comfort, when hee saith, that with man this is vnpossible, but with God all things are possible. It seemeth to a couetous man to bee a very hard thing to depart from any thing, but when Christ Iesus shall be the mightie worke of his spirit truly touch the heart of Zacheus, hee can make him willingly to giue halfe of his goods vnto the poore, and if that he hath imured any man, to restore the same foure fould.
That was a hard and fearful saying of Saint Paul 1. Corinth. 6. and 9. verse: Neither Fornicators, nor Adulterers, nor Idolaters, nor Wantons, nor Buggerers, nor Thieves, nor Covetous men, nor Drunkards, nor Railers, nor Extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God. But that which followeth was most comfortable unto the Corinthians, and so it is most comfortable unto us: And such (saith he) were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the spirit of our God. Lo here how Corinth was once a wild and brutish people, but after their calling they became sound in faith, and were made the Church of God. And in Titus 1. verse 12. Paul saith, That the Cretans were always liars, evil beasts, and slow bellies, and (saith he) this witness is true, wherefore rebuke them sharply: that they might become sound in the faith. Whereby we