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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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yet so as he was not finally moved, and utterly overthrown. He had many battles, but got the victory; many men rose against him, but the Lord was on his side, & still he was unremovable as Mount Zion; and though he was shaken for a time, yet in the end he was safe. Now to the verse following.
yet so as he was not finally moued, and vtterly ouerthrowne. He had many battels, but got the victorie; many men rose against him, but the Lord was on his side, & still he was vnremoueable as Mount Sion; and though he was shaken for a time, yet in the end he was safe. Now to the verse following.
Wherefore mine heart is glad, and my tongue rejoiceth; my flesh also doth rest in hope. Here are two pestilent opinions of the Papists overthrown. The one, that we should not boldly rejoice in the undoubted assurance of our salvation. The other, that we should dou•t and be in a mammering of our final perseverance. In our confession of the faith immediately after the article of the remission of our sins, followeth the acknowledging of an happy resurrection, and glorious immortality: wherein we are assured, that even as in this life our sins are pardoned, so we shall not miscarry to the very resurrection, and our very flesh shall rise again to most blessed immortality. Shall I doubt, that God watcheth over me as a father in love, as almighty in power, as a provident preserver in governing heaven and earth? Shall I doubt that Christ, true God and true Man died for my sins, rose for my justification, ascended to take possession of that glory, which he will give unto me at his coming? Shall I doubt that the spirit of God hath sealed me and sanctified me, preserving me unblameable in Christ until the day of redemption? Shall I doubt, that I am of the number of the Saints, which are ordained to that glory, which is freely given of God the Father, dearly purchased of God the Son, and assuredly warranted by the ministry of the word, and working of God the holy Ghost? No. Why then should I doubt that my sins are freely pardoned? Can a man by reason conceive the mystery of the Trinity in unity; the distinction of natures in one person Christ Jesus, the secret working of the holy Ghost in them that are called, the rising again to life, the dead body consumed to earth? No, we walk not by reason, we live by faith, and we believe against reason, even because the spirit of God by the preaching of the word, hath sealed and beareth record of of these things to our spirits. Wherefore seeing we have no warrant of any thing concerning faith, but by the word and by the spirit, and the same word and spirit assure us as well of one parcel of faith as of another; what blockishness is it to believe all other points that doctrine, and to doubt and call in question one concerning the forgiveness of sins?