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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THE THIRTEENTH SERMON.
9 Ye are spies, and are come to see the weakness of the land. 12 Nay but ye are come to see the weakness of the land. 14 This is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies. 15 Hereby shall ye be proved: by the life of Pharaoh, ye shall not go hence, &c. 21 We have verily sinned against our brother, &c.
9 Ye are spies, and are come to see the weakenes of the land. 12 Nay but ye are come to see the weakenes of the land. 14 This is it that I spake vnto you, saying, Ye are spies. 15 Hereby shall ye be proued: by the life of Pharaoh, ye shall not goe hence, &c. 21 We haue verily sinned against our brother, &c.
Joseph a good man, and yet lieth: so was Lot a good man, and yet loth to part from Sodom. These were great offences. Whence come they? from custom no doubt. Joseph being amongst profane men had some smell of their words. And Lot, though their wickedness and Sodomitry vexed his righteous soul, yet through custom, he could have found in his heart to have lived still amongst them. So first we must here be taught to eschew ill custom and company. The second note hence to be observed, may answer a piece of a doubt in the former two examples of Joseph and Lot. For some man may say, Joseph and Lot both good men dwelt and kept company with the wicked, therefore we may do so. But it may be answered, that examples prove nothing without the warrant of the word. And as for Joseph, God had sent him extraordinarily to provide for his fathers family: but Lot chose to dwell in Sodom for his lucre (as ye may read in the thirteenth chapter of this book, the tenth verse) and therefore this greedy desire was altogether unlawful: and though the Lord in mercy deferred the punishment thereof, he punished that yet at length in his wife, who was turned into a pillar of salt; in himself and his own daughters, with whom he committed abominable incest. Therefore we see, that it followeth not, because they dwelt among the wicked, therefore we may.