A02178:2352
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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so that they know the Lord was even to take his rod in hand before he could renew them, and hereby he meaneth to fine them, that they may come out of afflictions as fined gold, whom the Lord will make vessels to eternal glory.
so that they knowe the Lord was euen to take his rod in hand before hee could renew them, and hereby hee meaneth to fine them, that they may come out of afflictions as fined gold, whom the Lord will make vessels to eternall glorie.
That which is set down here of the afflictions of Josephs brethren, we may term more rightly by the name of scaring, than of punishment and affliction; for they were but put in fear only, and though they were put in ward; it was but for a very small time: and we read of no correction that was laid upon them; no, it appeareth by Josephs affection to them, who could not abstain, but was fain often to burst forth into tears when he had gone from them, that he so tendered them as his brethren; when by the wisdom of the spirit of God he made a show as though he would deal very hardly with them, yet this fearing and searing of them it humbled them, and drave them to confess, and to say one to another, we have utterly sinned against our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear him: therefore is this trouble come upon us. And here we see how they confessed their fault when they were scared, before they •eit any punishment upon them; which may be an argument, that it was a true humbling from the heart, with a grief not of the punishment, for there was yet none laid upon them, but of their sins, which then they brought into their remembrance, and it lay as a burden upon their conscience, that they even saw Gods judgements ready to give sentence of condemnation against them, except they prevented him by speedy repentance. Whereas if it had been done, and had been in time of affliction that they had been so humbled, it had been hard to say, whether it had been done truly or dissemblingly, with a feeling of their sins, or the greatness of their grief which they sustained, as is said before.