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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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Now we see as it is our duty to obey the true Minister, and such as carefully watch over our souls, with the most wholesome word of God: so must we beware that we suffer not our selves to be seduced by false teachers; and therefore we must prove their doctrine by the word of God. But last of all, if any shall preach Jesus Christ sincerely ⟨p. 352⟩and purely, having some infirmity, we must not therefore reject him, but obey him for the truth sake; and consider that we are all subject to infirmities, and that to some one more than another: and therefore it is our duty christian like to admonish him thereof; and no doubt, if he be the servant of God he will give him more strength against the same.
Now we see as it is our duty to obey the true Minister, and such as carefully watch ouer our soules, with the most wholsome word of God: so must wee beware that we suffer not our selues to be seduced by false teachers; and therefore wee must proue their doctrine by the word of God. But last of all, if any shall preach Iesus Christ sincerely ⟨p. 352⟩and purely, hauing some infirmitie, we must not therfore reiect him, but obey him for the truth sake; and consider that we are all subiect to infirmities, and that to some one more than another: and therefore it is our dutie christian like to admonish him thereof; and no doubt, if he be the seruant of God he will giue him more strength against the same.
Besides this obedience, the duty of the people toward their Minister must extend further, and they must also reverence him, and give him honour, else it is most certain that obedience cannot take place: which we may see by the example of the woman of Samaria,1 who notwithstanding the great courtesy of our Saviour Christ in telling her what he was, and what he could do for her, yet would she not obey him at the first, but tell to taunting and overthwarting of him too unreverently; but when he had touched her conscience and laid open her wickedness, so that she saw plainly he was another manner of man than she took him for, then she began to reverence him, and said, O sir, I see that thou art a Prophet, and then she obeyed him, and desired to learn of him: so, before she obeyed, she conceived a reverence of him, and accounted of him as a Prophet. It is also manifest in the 2. of the Acts, when as the wonderful miracle could not bring the people to obey the Apostles,