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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. 29. Take from me the way of lying, and grant me graciously thy law.
¶ Vers. 29. Take from mee the way of lying, and graunt mee graciously thy lawe.
AS before he prayed to understand the way of Gods precepts, so here he would be kept from the way of lying, and because they whom God▪ keepeth, are best kept: he therefore continues his prayer to God, desiring so to be instructed by his word, that his mind being purged from all vanity, he may be taught to obey Gods word. The way of lying is that which the Prophet calleth vain inventions, Vers. 113. falsehood, Vers. 163. the way of the wicked, Psal. 1. Our own ways, Ezech. 18. In a word the Prophet here desireth to be confirmed by God against all corruptions in doctrine, and disorder of conversation, which Satan by his witty and wily instruments doth seek to set abroach in the world. These are called the way of lying, 1. Because they are invented by Satan the father of lies, 2. They are countenanced by mans wit, the store-house of lies, 3. They seem to be that which they are not, which is, of the nature of lies, 4. They are contrary to God and his truth, the discoverers of lies. This way of lying before sin came into the world, it was a way so unknown to man, that indeed it was as a desert wilderness, in the which never any foot had tro•e: but now it is so broad and wide a way, that the most in the world walk in it. The heathen by his Idols, the Turk by his Alcoran, the Jesuit by his new Gospel, the Lutheran by his Contransubstantiation, the Protestant by his denying the power of godliness, the Schismatic by his pretended purity have walked so along in this way, that the way of trueth they will not know. We have wrangled so long about trueth in religion, that as he could not find Rome, in Rome: so we cannot find Religion, in Religion. And we have cloaked so long trueth in conversation, that true dealing is banished from the sons of men, he that will use it must dye a beggar. Hijs diebus jam peractis, nulla sides est in factis: ml in ore, verba lactis, fell in cord fraus in factis.