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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 prayed before that God would save him, had he not need think you when the wicked waited to destroy him? thus this and the former verse have their coherence. Here then he complaineth against his adversaries, and protesteth notwithstanding his recourse to Gods word.
HE prayed before that God would saue him, had he not need thinke you when the wicked waited to destroy him? thus this and the former verse haue their coherence. Here then he complaineth against his aduersaries, and protesteth notwithstanding his recourse to Gods word.
He describeth his adversaries, by their names, calling them wicked ones▪ 2. by their1 diligence they lay wait. 3 by their malice, they wait to destroy him. For the first, the hebrew word translated wicked, if the letters be transposed signifieth a rich man, because it is hard to find goods and goodness, riches and righteousness in one person: and I think that Solomon calleth riches, the treasures of iniquity▪ Prou. 10. 2. not only because they are gathered by bad means, but also because, often their owners are bad men. These wicked persons, strangers from the womb, the sons of men, the children of Belial, scoffing Ishmaels, parasitical Doegs, persecuting Sauls, David often complaineth of in this Psalm as verses. 23. 52. 61. 69 78 85. 87. 110 241. 157 261. and here, and in many other Psalms. And surely not without cause, for many were these evil spirits that vexed him, his brother Eliab accused him of pride, Goliath the Philistine despised him to his face, Saul the King hunted him as a partridge, Doeg the Edomite slandered him to his Lord, Absalom his son drave him out of his kingdom, Ahithophel his counsellor counselled against him, M•cho• his wife contemned him in her heart, Shimei his subject railed on him, in his misery, Nabal the Carmelite played the churl with him, and they that did eat of his bread, and were entertained as friends became in the end his utter enemies: and all because the Lord loved him, and he followed that which good was. When Cain and Abel can agree in one field; Ishmael and Izaak in one house, Jacob and Esau in one womb, then shall the wicked and godly agree together, not before: see Prou: 29. 29. It is the nature of the wicked to be opposite to the good, and persecutors of the godly, therefore