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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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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. aM. Robert Glover martyr, at Coventry, after he was condemned by the Bishop, & was now at point to be delivered out of the world, it so happened, that two or three days before his death, his heart being lumpish and desolate of all spiritual consolation, felt in himself no aptness, nor willingness, but rather a heaviness and dullness of spirit, full of much discomfort, to bear the bitter cross of Martyrdom, ready now to be laid upon him, whereupon he fearing in himself, least the Lord had withdrawn his wonted favour from him, made his moan to one Austin his deer friend, signifying unto him, how earnestly he had prayed day and night unto the LORD GOD, and yet could receive no motion nor sense of any comfort from him, unto whom they said Austin answered again, willing him patiently to wait the Lords pleasure, & howsoever his present feeling was, yet seeing his cause was just and true, he exhorted him constantly ⟨p. 401⟩to stick to the same, & to play the man, nothing doubting, but the Lord in his good time would visit him, and satisfy his desire with plenty of consolation, &c. The next day when the time came of the Martyrdom, as he was going to the place, and was now come to the sight of the stake, although all the night before praying for strength and courage, he could feel none, suddenly he was so replenished with the holy Ghost, that he cried out clapping with his hands to Austin, and saying with these words, Austin, he is come, he is come, &c. and that with such joy and alacrity, as one seeming rather to be risen from some deadly danger to liberty of life, then as one passing out of the world by any pains of death.