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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Yea to go further, when a professor of the gospel shall make away himself, though it be a fearful case, yet still the same opinion must be carried. First, Gods judgements are very secret. 2. They may repent in the very agony for any thing we know. 3 None is able to comprehend the bottomless depth of the graces & mercies which are in Christ Jesus.
Yea to go further, when a professor of the gospell shall make away himselfe, though it be a fearefull case, yet still the same opinion must be carried. First, Gods iudgements are very secret. 2. They may repent in the very agonie for any thing we know. 3 None is able to comprehend the bottomles depth of the graces & mercies which are in Christ Iesus.
Thus much of the manner which God useth in forsaking his Elect: Now follow the kinds of desertion, which are two: desertion in punishment, desertion in sin.
Thus much of the manner which God vseth in forsaking his Elect: Now followe the kinds of desertion, which are two: desertion in punishment, desertion in sinne.
Desertion in punishment is, when God deferreth either to mitigate or to remove the cross and chastisement which he hath laid upon his children. This befell Christ on the cross aMy God (saith he) my God, why hast thou forsaken me? this was the complaint of Gideon. Did not the Lord bring us out of Egypt? but now the Lord hath forsaken us, & delivered us into the hands of the Midianites▪ Judg. 6. 13. a