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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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Have we not these outward things? Godliness will make a supply in stead of all: for ⟨p. 384⟩that is great gain with contentment, in comparison of which, all the promises of contentedness1 that other things make unto us, will be found to be but mere illusions; because it certifieth our souls that God will provide sufficiently for us, which persuasion alone is able to stay the restless and unsettled minds of the sons of men, from pursuing after the unprofitable, deceitful, and lying vanities of this present evil world.
Haue wee not these outward things? Godlinesse will make a supply in stead of all: for ⟨p. 384⟩that is great gaine with contentment, in comparison of which, all the promises of contentednesse1 that other thinges make vnto vs, will bee found to bee but meere illusions; because it certifieth our soules that God will prouide sufficiently for vs, which perswasion alone is able to stay the restlesse and vnsetled mindes of the sonnes of men, from pursuing after the vnprofitable, deceitfull, and lying vanities of this present euill world.
- 12. Tim. 6. 6.
Seeing religion is such an incomparable treasure, it should instruct us in the second place to have the means in due estimation, whereby we may be made truly religious, by1 which our minds that are blind, may be enlightened, our hearts of crooked may be made straight, of proud may be made humble, and of fraudulent may be made true and faithful. And those means are the Word, the Sacrament, Prayer, and the like, which are the steps whereby we must ascend unto this honourable estate: for it is as possible for men to make stairs to climb up unto the sky, as for us without these, to ascend unto heaven, by any devises of our own framing.