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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 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⟩himself by a lye now and then, for his commodity, or for his credit sake: and if a man be never so rigorous and severe for matters of justice, and yet will steal time from the Lord upon his day, and spend the same in his own businesses and affairs, whether secretly or openly: and so for any other thing, if we make bold to borrow a little law of God; this is an argument of a false and dissembling heart: and therefore this must be taken heed of, as being very dangerous.
1 One note therefore of a sound heart (which wee should take for our tryall) is to bee1 vniuersall in our desires, and in our practise, that wee haue respect to euery commandement of 2