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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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Therefore let us, when we enter upon any good way, endeavour with an upright and true heart to go forward in the same, otherwise it had been better never to have entered hereinto. Now that we may make sure work in this regard, let us try our sincerity by the good effects that do ever accompany the same.
Therefore let vs, when we enter vpon any good way, endeuour with an vpright and true heart to goe forward in the same, otherwise it had beene better neuer to haue entred hereinto. Now that wee may make sure worke in this regard, let vs trye our sinceritie by the good effects that doe euer accompany the same.
1 One note therefore of a sound heart (which we should take for our trial) is to be1 universal in our desires, and in our practise, that we have respect to every commandment of 2God, to the first table as well as to the second, and to the second as well as to the first: that we be righteous towards men, as well as religious towards God; that we look to our hearts as well as to our actions, and to our actions as well as to our hearts▪ Contrary to this3 rule is the dealing of those that will give dispensations unto themselves for many things, so that they can make a show of some thing. What if we be not so strict for the Sabbath?4 (think they) yet we are no swearers nor blasphemers: what if we take a little liberty for vain sports and idle discourses? these are but trifles; we will not be adulterers, nor filthy speakers, &c. This is a shrewd sign of an heartfull fraught with guile and deceit: the property of a good conscience is to be willing and desirous in all things to walk honestly. If one be never so strict for the Sabbath, if he will help ⟨p. 388⟩