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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.
Wherefore (my beloved) as ye have always 1obeyed me, not as in my presence only, but now much more in mine absence, so make an end of your salvation with fear and trembling. It appeareth by his words, that the Philippians to whom he wrote had bin very obedient unto his ministry from that time, wherein it pleased God to touch their heart with a care of their salvation by his preaching; yea so obedient were they, that not only in his presence among them, they used great submission unto his doctrine, but much more in his absence they declared their dutifulness, in that with great ⟨p. 350⟩eat they laboured to make it profitable by practising the same in their life and conversation: whereby it may seem that the Apostle needed not to have exhorted them unto this duty of obedience, being already so forward and prone thereunto: but we may hereby learn how needful a thing it is that the people be obedient, and that in no small measure, but so far forth as they shall be able to frame their lives according to the word of God in all points, which he preacheth unto them sincerely and purely to the feeding of their souls unto eternal life, which they can never obtain unless they become obedient to be taught and instructed at the Ministers hand by the most pure word of God, which with the operation of the holy Ghost worketh faith in the children of God, whereby they apprehend the merits of Jesus Christ, and have his righteousness, obedience, and holiness imputed unto them of the free grace and mercy of God, as surely as if in their own persons they had wrought it, and so made heirs of the kingdom which Christ by his blood hath purchased for them. It is necessary that so many as desire to be saved, be obedient unto the Minister, whom God hath placed over them as his instrument to bring them to his heavenly kingdom, as before I have declared unto you. And the rather to stir them up unto a continual obedience he addeth this: Make an end of your own salvation with fear and trembling: As if he should say, Beloved brethren, as you have hitherto submitted your selves to be reformed by the most glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ, and have obeyed us in the Lord to the increasing of your faith, and the assurance of your salvation: so I beseech you to continue, and even with fear and trembling make an end of your salvation:
Wherefore (my beloued) as yee haue alwaies