A02178:2524
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
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.
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.
Our tongues have in time past either in praying ignorantly, vainly, and superstitiously, or in not praying at all, in abusing the name of God, in unreverent, uncharitable, unchaste, untrue speeches set themselves against the Lord and his people; now they are to be the spokesmen of our hearts in understanding, in truth, in sincerity praying to the Lord, they must be the most glorious advancers of God his glory, they must be dipped and seasoned ⟨p. 373⟩with salt, with grace, with reverence, with meekness, chastity, and truth, as the unfeigned witnesses of a renewed mind.
Our tongues haue in time past either in praying ignorantly, vainly, and superstitiously, or in not praying at all, in abusing the name of God, in vnreuerent, vncharitable, vnchast, vntrue speeches set themselues against the Lord and his people; now they are to bee the spokesmen of our hearts in vnderstanding, in truth, in sinceritie praying to the Lord, they must be the most glorious aduancers of God his glory, they must be dipped and seasoned