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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
Part 3 › Sermon 14 › Section 4: The fourth part of the danger for not doing these duties faithfully.
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The fourth part of the danger for not doing these duties faithfully.
Now we have seen the great fruits that come of well doing these duties both to the Minister and the people, we may thereby see what danger ensueth of the contrary,1 that is, not of doing them. For whereas if the Ministers do their duty faithfully, the Lord will bless their labours, so that their account may be acceptable, and their souls, saved: so on the contrary, if they do not their duty truly, as they ought, and seek the glory of God by their doings, the Lord hath pronounced by the mouth of his Prophet Malachi, 2that he will bring a curse upon them, and will curse their blessings, he will corrupt their seed, and cast dung in their faces. Thus will the Lord deal with such unfaithful servants, that nothing shall prosper, but even their very seed shall be corrupt, and he shall be called to a straight account, and he shall bear the burden not only of his own sins, but of all the sins of ⟨p. 357⟩the people, and every soul that hath perished thorough his negligence shall be laid to his charge, and so shall he become a notable Devil in hell there to be tormented with everlasting and untolerable pain. Finally, if the people do not their duty unto the Minister, they shall make him full of grief and sorrow marvellously troubled in spirit, nothing joyful3 in his calling, but always mourning: and moreover the Lord will harden the peoples heart, that the word shall not be profitable unto them, but even as S. Paul testifieth a •avor of death unto death, and in the end they shall be rewarded in hell fire which shall never be quenched, nor the worm shall never die, but there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.