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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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Hebr. 13. vers. 17. Obey them that have the oversight of you, and submit your selves, for they watch for your souls, as they that must give accounts, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Hebr. 13. vers. 17. Obey them that haue the ouersight of you, and submit your selues, for they watch for your soules, as they that must giue accounts, that they may doe it with ioy, and not with griefe: for that is vnprofitable for you.
Whensoever it pleaseth the Lord God by his providence to call me to preach his word unto his people (as he hath at this present called me unto you (reverend Fathers and brethren beloved in our Lord Jesus) my desire is to entreat of such a parcel of his most holy word, as may minister matter both to stir up and rouse them out of the den of ignorance which have not known Jesus Christ, nor the sweetness of1 his grace, and also to prick forward them which have received some measure of the Spirit of God, assuring them of salvation purchased by2 Jesus Christ, to a greater study and care for to increase this inestimable treasure. The Lord of his great mercy therefore hath presented unto me, such a place for my desired purpose, as I hope by the assistance of his holy Spirit shall be profitable both to you & to my self. The words are written in the thirteenth chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews, and in the seventeenth verse: Obey them that have the oversight of you, &c. The spirit of God doth most plainly set forth unto us in this place: