A02178:3089
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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For the first how wonderfully doth it commend his love to the word, that when they made fair proffers, no gain could get him; when they began to threaten him, no terror could dismay him; when they circumvented him with preferments, no pleasure could prevail with him, no promise could win him? For the second, they oppressed him with injuries, they undermined him with benefits, they supplanted him with politic slanders, and set fair faces on their vile causes, and yet none of these did so prevail, that either their violence could enforce him, nor their liberality allure him, nor their policies and subtle cavilling beguile him one whit, to be drawn from the true worship of God, which ⟨p. 456⟩was an infallible token, that unfeignedly he loved the law. O singular trial, that when the law elsewhere had no entertainment, yet he did defend it though he was so highly contemned.
For the first how wonderfully doth it commend his loue to the word, that when they made faire profers, no gaine could get him; when they began to threaten him, no terrour could dismay him; when they circumuented him with preferments, no pleasure could preuaile with him, no promise could winne him? For the second, they oppressed him with iniuries, they vndermined him with benefits, they supplanted him with politike slanders, and set faire faces on their vile causes, and yet none of these did so preuaile, that either their violence could enforce him, nor their liberalitie allure him, nor their policies and subtill cauilling beguile him one whit, to be drawne from the true worship of God, which ⟨p. 456⟩was an infallible token, that vnfainedly he loued the law. O singular triall, that when the law elsewhere had no entertainment, yet hee did defend it though hee was so highly contemned.
Experience doth teach us, that the more godliness is oppressed, the less it is regarded, and that not of the ungodly and wicked ones only, but even of the very children of God, aswell by calling, as by election. David