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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 15: OF THE CONFESSION OF SINS.Part 3 › Sermon 15: OF THE CONFESSION OF SINNES.
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.
When sin fighteth, then learning will not so much prevail, Satan is such a subtle Sophister.
When sinne fighteth, then learning will not so much preuaile, Satan is such a subtle Sophister.
A father he must be, a brother, a sister, a righteous man, as S. James saith, who must have the affection of a father for compassion, taciturnity, and not upbraiding: Compassion, that the heart may bleed as of a tender father and mother, that though the sin be not ours, yet we may have a fellow feeling; for the merciful is blessed which followeth the poor in spirit: Taciturnity, that the sin being close, it may never go further than the cause is.
A father he must be, a brother, a sister, a righteous man, as S. Iames saith, who must haue the affection of a father for compassion, taciturnitie, and not vpbrayding: Compassion, that the heart may bleed as of a tender father and mother, that though the sin be not ours, yet we may haue a fellow feeling; for the mercifull is blessed which followeth the poore in spirit: Taciturnitie, that the sinne being close, it may neuer goe further thā the cause is.
Upbraiding is such a thing as it feareth many, because it is the property of worldly men to keep men under by that means, but these fathers may not do it.
Vpbrayding is such a thing as it feareth many, because it is the propertie of worldly men to keepe men vnder by that meanes, but these fathers may not doe it.