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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.
¶ Verse. 32. I will run the ways of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge mine heart.
¶ Verse. 32. I will runne the waies of thy commaundements, when thou shalt enlarge mine heart.
This last verse is a golden verse, in which he showeth principally with what speed and cheerfulness he will serve God. But because this race celestial cannot be undertaken unless we know Christ, and in him the remission of sins, which alone knowledge doth enlarge the heart, drawing it out of the dolours▪ of death, and perfuming it with a new joy, by which it resteth quieted in the Lord, therefore, as before he desired to be quickened and cheered according to Gods word, so here he promiseth, that he will most cheerfully go on in the ways of Gods statutes, where it shall please the Lord to set his heart at liberty by taking away from him the fear of his displeasure purchased by sin, and the fury of his enemies of whom he was in danger.
THis last verse is a golden verse, in which he sheweth principally with what speede and cheerfulnesse he will serue God. But because this race celestiall cannot be vndertaken vnlesse we know Christ, and in him the remission of sinnes, which alone knowledge doth enlarge the heart, drawing it out of the dolors▪ of death, and perfuming it with a new ioy, by which it resteth quieted in the Lord, therefore, as before he desired to be quickened and cheerēd according to Gods word, so heere he promiseth, that he will most cheerfully goe on in the waies of Gods statutes, where it shall please the Lord to set his heart at libertie by taking away from him the feare of his displeasure purchased by sinne, and the furie of his enemies of whom he was in danger.