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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.
HE showeth that he was not envious against the wicked for their delights; but taketh a delight in another thing, that is, in praising God, that he might not be entangled with their pleasures. The remedy of sin, that we fall not into those sins which others have, is to fear least God punish some secret sin in us, as he hath done in them: For God doth never let us fall into gross sins, but to punish some other sin we lie in, which is secret, and 1we will not come out of, because it is unknown. And if we will not be entangled with the pleasures of the wicked, we must do as David doth here, so acquaint us with the word, as that we make our songs of it: that is, that we do not only read, hear, and talk gravely of it, but also make it our songs when we will be merry, as Paul Coloss. 3. for where there is a delight, there men will even be singing of it. And hereof come these spiritual songs in the Bible, to show their great delight in the word. So (Ephes. 5.) Paul maketh this a sign, that we are full of the Spirit, when we can sing of them.
HE sheweth that he was not enuious against the wicked for their delights; but taketh a delight in another thing, that is, in praising God, that he might not be intangled with their pleasures. The remedie of sinne, that we fall not into those sinnes which others haue, is to feare least God punish some secret sinne in vs, as he hath done in them: For God doth neuer let vs fall into grosse sinnes, but to punish some other sinne we lie in, which is secret, and