A02178:2382
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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Whosoever therefore shall not thus labour, is not the minister of the Lord, but a robber and spoiler of the ⟨p. 344⟩people of God, which thrust themselves into the ministry, to fill their belly only with the sweat of other mens brows.
Whosoeuer therefore shall not thus labour, is not the minister of the Lord, but a robber and spoiler of the ⟨p. 344⟩people of God, which thrust themselues into the ministrie, to fill their belly only with the sweate of other mens browes.
Now as it is necessary that the Minister over and besides reading and studying the word,1 must also •each the same; So he must take heed that he observe the right order of teaching, and must not deu••e doctrine of his own head. But if he will be a good builder, his foundation must be Jesus Christ, for another foundation can no man lay, and upon the same he must not build timber, hay, or stubble; whereby is meant all curious and unprofitable questions, and vain ostentation, but he must build gold, silver, and precious stone▪ by which precious substance is noted the most excellent and pure doctrine of the Gospel. And hereby shall you know his argument, if he beat down the st••fenecked and obstinate2 sinners, by threatening the rigour of the law, and the terrible judgements of God against the violators thereof: and on the contrary, by healing the bruised and wounded consciences with sin, with the sweet promises of the Gospel. If any man therefore shall labour to lay any other foundation, and use any other order of doctrine than this, he is an Antichrist, that is to say, against Christ, and no Christian.