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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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1. What misery grace doth free us from. 2. What good things it maketh us to enjoy, 1. In this life. 1. Estimation. 2. Safety. 3. Comfort. 2. In the life to come, all manner of happiness.
1. What miserie grace doth free vs from. 2. What good things it maketh vs to enjoy, 1. In this life. 1. Estimation. 2. Safetie. 3. Comfort. 2. In the life to come, all manner of happinesse.
1. First therefore that we may see what misery it frees us from, we must consider,1 that men naturally are the children of wrath under the curse and malediction of God, subject to horrible vexations and terrors: all their life long, they live in fear of death, and of such judgements as are forerunners of death: their table is a snare, and their prosperity their ruin: their adversity is embittered, and their callings accursed, and in a word, nothing maketh them better, but every thing a great deal worse; all being infected and poisoned unto them by their own sins, and Gods fearful vengeance upon the same. If they live, it is to the increase of their damnation: if they die, they go to take present possession of destruction: if they refuse to eat and drink, they2 are murderers of themselves: if they do eat and drink, they are usurpers of that which is none of their own. If they come not to the Word, and Sacrament, they are contemners of Gods ordinances: if they do come, they are profaners of the same, and so shall be further hardened to their final perdition: and is not this a wretched case? Though for their apparel, they were clothed as Solomon in the midst of his royalty: though their ⟨p. 381⟩Robes were as rich as was Aaron's Ephod, or breast-plate, or the most costliest parts of his garments, all were of no worth without grace: though they fed on the daintiest dishes, and did eat Angels food (as the Israelites are said to do) yet if they be sinful and rebellious, they shall perish as Corah, Dathan, and Akiron, and many other of them did. Though their habitations were as sumptuous & delightful as Paradise was, yet they could have no more comfort therein, then Adam had, when he had once broken the commandment of GOD, in eating of the forbidden fruit: Notwithstanding, all things remaining in their excellency as before, yet he was surprised with the terrors and fears of a guilty conscience, and could take no pleasure in the goodly rivers, in the pleasant fruits, in the variety of all the creatures that were in the garden of Eden, &c. but he was fain to fly from Gods presence, and to hide himself among the Trees of the garden.