A02178:2523
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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Our eyes have sometimes lusted after popish pomp, they have been ravished with a delight in the creatures of God, but carnally and without all glory to God; they have bin haughty, full of pride, fraught with disdain, nourishers of uncleanness, the wickets of death unto our souls, and carried away with the covetous desire of worldly things; now they must be renewed not in substance, but in their duties: whatsoever we behold with them, we must make them teachers of the soul thereby, and all things seeming beautiful to the eyes in this life, where the creatures are defiled, ought to provoke us to the beauty of the Creator, which is infinite, we must testify our humility, our piety, our chastity, and our upright affections by them.
Our eyes haue sometimes lusted after popish pompe, they haue beene rauished with a delight in the creatures of God, but carnally and without all glorie to God; they haue bin haughtie, ful of pride, fraught with disdaine, nourishers of vncleannes, the wickets of death vnto our soules, and carried away with the couetous desire of worldly things; now they must be renewed not in substance, but in their duties: whatsoeuer wee behold with them, we must make them teachers of the soule thereby, and all things seeming beautifull to the eyes in this life, where the creatures are defiled, ought to prouoke vs to the beautie of the Creator, which is infinite, wee must testifie our humilitie, our pietie, our chastitie, and our vpright affections by them.
Our ears, which have been more carried away with the vain chanting of Papists, than with the reverent singing of the Church, & have more greedily attended on lies than on the truth, that have heard sin without grief, and filled themselves with unchaste songs, must so be framed and fashioned anew, as we lend them only to the word, to gracing speeches, to chaste communication willingly; and whatsoever we shall hear contrary to these, to stop them up, and to make known our hearty misliking of them.
Our eares, which haue been more carried away with the vaine chaunting of Papists, than with the reuerent singing of the Church, & haue more greedily attended on lies than on the truth, that haue heard sinne without griefe, and filled themselues with vnchast songs, must so be framed and fashioned anewe, as wee lend them onely to the word, to gracing speeches, to chast communication willingly; and whatsoeuer wee shall heare contrarie to these, to stop them vp, and to make knowne our heartie misliking of them.