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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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This afflicted good man is now comforted: his comfort came from the delight of Gods law, he thinks of it, he feels the force of it, and therefore to the end he might ever receive the like comforts, he will bind himself by a promise to the Lord, that he will never forget his precepts: adding a reason, they were to him spirit and life, (By them I will never forget.)
THis afflicted good man is nowe comforted: his comfort came from the delight of Gods law, he thinks of it, he feeles the force of it, and therefore to the end he might euer receiue the like comforts, he will bind himselfe by a promise to the Lord, that he will neuer forget his precepts: adding a reason, they were to him spirit and life, (By them I will neuer forget.)
He that never thinketh of times, and things past, his life is no life, saith Seneca. Memory,1 it is the storehouse of all such things as we see, hear, or invent. A forgetful mind, is like the land of Sodom, in which nothing groweth which perisheth not; or that L•thean Lake, in which nothing cometh which dyeth not: or the Ostrich, that forgetteth her eggs: or Messala Coruintes, who forgot his own name: or a casting stomach, that casteth up whatsoever it receiveth.
Hee that neuer thinketh of times, and things past, his life is no life, saith Seneca. Memorie,1 it is the storehouse of all such things as wee see, heare, or inuent. A forgetfull minde, is like the lande of Sodome, in which nothing groweth which perisheth not; or that L•thean Lake, in which nothing commeth which dyeth not: or the Ostrich, that forgetteth her egges: or Messala Coruintes, who forgot his owne name: or a casting stomacke, that casteth vp whatsoeuer it receiueth.
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