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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 the better to conceive what it is to be a new creature, we must consider for the one part that which is Ephes. 4. 22. 23. 24. Cast off, concerning the conversation in time past, the old man, which is corrupt through the deceivable lusts, And be renewed in the spirit of your mind, And put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness, and true holiness: and for the other part, that which is Coloss. 3. 9. Ye have put off the old man, with his works, 10. And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: briefly the word importeth thus much, that whatsoever we lost in the first creation, we must receive in the second; and whatsoever we have been deprived of by Adam, we have it restored in Christ. Adam not in substance but in qualities was made like unto God, and we are new creatures, made partakers of the godly nature, as witnesseth Peter, not in things essential, but in holy qualities to resemble the Creator. And as Adam in the beginning, and we in Adam were made wise, righteous, holy, and in perfect felicity, and both he and we through sin have lost this heavenly image: for in Christ it is renewed so fully, as he is our wisdom, and taketh from us ignorance; he is our righteousness, and acquiteth us from our sins; he is our holiness, and freeth us from our corruption; he is our redemption, and restoreth to us our liberty. And because we are then renewed, when we are a wise people, righteous, holy, and waiting for the coming of Christ: we must on our ⟨p. 371⟩parts in some measure have our earthly wisdom mortified, spiritual wisdom renewed, our earthly affections slain, godly affections quickened, our old conversation quelled, & our conversation from hence-forth in heaven, we must not live as we were wont, but our lives must be changed to the obedience of the word, which we must testify in thought, word and deed. Briefly then we are renewed by faith in Christ, when we assuredly believe, that (1. Cor. 1. 30) Christ Jesus is made of God unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption, and by the fruits of faith, by Rom. 12. 2.) not fashioning our selves like unto this world, but by being changed by the renewing of our mind, and by (