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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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3 As a loving husband will not take away his love from his wife for some particular1 wants, so long as she keepeth her love wholly and truly unto him: so the Lord will not cast off his loving kindness to us for special wants, or frailty in particular commandments, so long as we generally labour to please him.
3 As a louing husband will not take away his loue from his wife for some particular1 wants, so long as she keepeth her loue wholy and truly vnto him: so the Lord will not cast off his louing kindnes to vs for speciall wants, or frailtie in particular commandements, so long as we generally labour to please him.
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4 When one asked him concerning marriage, whether it were good to marry; seeing sometimes, when concupiscence pricked him, he was moved to it, and some other time when he felt no such thing, he thought he might abstain from it: He answered, many1 come hastily into that calling, not v•ing the means of trying their estate throughly before; as namely, whether they by prayer, fasting, and avoiding all occasions of concupiscence, have the gi•t of chastity or no? Many use some of the means, and not all: many use all the means, but a small time: therefore it is good to use first the means, not part of them, but all of them: not for a while, but long. If so be that all these things will not prevail, attend upon the Lords ordinance, and wait when the Lord shall give just occasion of using that estate, to his glory and our comfort.