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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
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.
ALEPH. THE FIRST PORTION.
¶ Verse I. Blessed are those that are upright in their way, and walk in the Laws of the Lord.
¶ Verse I. Blessed are those that are vpright in their way, and walke in the Lawes of the Lord.
That which all men seek for and few find, the same is set out in the word of God, namely felicity and true happiness. And because God would have all men to know, wherein their blessed estate doth consist, therefore Christ begins his first Sermon with it Math. 5. David his first Psalm with it, Psal. 1. And the Prophet in this place his first verse with it, describing therein a blessed man. A description opposite to all that vain felicity, which ever vain Philosophers devised out of their deep speculations: or profane men frame out of their corrupt affections: not consisting in pleasures, riches, honours, greatness, in civill honesty, formal hypocrisy: or the whole possibility of nature, but in the sincerity of the heart, and continual walking in the ways of God. Solomon saw this, and therefore after he had sought happiness in all things of this life, he willeth us to hear the end of all, namely, to fear God and keep his commandments, for thus saith he, this is the whole man.
THat which all men seeke for and few finde, the same is set out in the word of God, namely felicitie and true happines. And because God would haue all men to know, wherein their blessed estate doth consist, therefore Christ begins his first Sermon with it