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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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3. Thirdly, he must live a godly life, showing himself an example and pattern of godliness for his people to imitate, that the mouths which are ready to slander the Gospel, may be stopped, and he must watch over his flock, that they be not deceived with false doctrine.
3. Thirdly, he must liue a godly life, shewing himselfe an example and patterne of godlinesse for his people to imitate, that the mouthes which are ready to slaunder the Gospell, may be stopped, and hee must watch ouer his flocke, that they be not deceiued with false doctrine.
4. Last of all, he must not refuse to give his life for them.
4. Last of all, he must not refuse to giue his life for them.
Concerning the first, that Ministers must give themselves diligently to reading, as it1 is manifest in the fourth chapter of the first Epistle to Timothy, where he exhorteth Timotheus, with these words: Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, and to doctrine. 2If that reading the word of God were not very needful, yea, and the first point of the Ministers of God, this faithful servant of God Saint Paul, would never have willed Timotheus to use▪ such diligence therein, who never moved any to do those things which were not profitable, and himself for the example of others, used the same: therefore it is certain that Saint Paul using great diligence therein, found such commodity as moved him to exhort Timotheus, and in him all other Ministers thereunto. But if Saint Paul, who was more than a Minister, even an Apostle, called thereunto extraordinarily, by the mouth of Jesus Christ himself from heaven; if he I say, which was placed in so high an office, and