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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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Vers. 4 Thou hast commanded to keep thy precepts diligently.
Vers. 4 Thou hast commaunded to keepe thy precepts diligently.
The doctrine that these words afford is this, that nothing is superfluous that is done in obedience to Gods holy will.1
THe doctrine that these wordes affoord is this, that nothing is superfluous that is done in obedience to Gods holie will.1
- 1Strict obedience to •e laboured for. 2. Cor. 7. 1.
The word translated Diligently, doth signify in the original tongue (wonderful much) so that the words go thus: Thou hast commanded to keep thy precepts wonderful much. And this the Apostle urgeth the Corinthians, unto: Having such promises beloved, let us purge our selves from all filthiness of the flesh and of the spirit: that is, from all manner of corruption,1 as well inward as outward. And that was the •rift of Christ Jesus in giving the true interpretation of th law, which the Pharisees had corrupted by their false Expositions: I say this was the drift to draw men from resting on the outward observation thereof, and to bring them to have regard unto their thoughts, and to the affections of their hearts: and moreover in their practise to do those things which heathen men and hypocrites could not attain unto: and therefore he often urgeth this sentence, to show the slenderness and insufficiency of their obedience: What singular thing do ye? Implying that Christians must in many things be singular, and differ from, and go beyond the common sort of men.