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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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Then the way to fight against covetousness, is to fight against the distrust of Gods providence, and want1 of belief in the word of God, in that for too much love of this world, and too little love of the word, they do not divide their times, that sometimes they may give themselves to prayer, to reading, to conferring of the word. And how do these men reason with themselves? I shall one day be old, and Age is accompanied with many evils of weakness and impotency: I must not think then to live without misery, unless I live now with some care: I must provide for my wife and children, and not leave them to the broad world; it standeth me therefore in hand, to work, and to take pains, whilst I may. So the pleasure of this temptation, taketh away the sweetness of the meditation of the life after death. Many2 strive against anger, and yet the more they strive, the more they fret, because they resist not the beginning of their Anger, which is a secret pride conceived in their minds. For of pride, (saith the holy-Ghost in the book of the Proverbs) cometh contention. Such men have this reason, whereunto they yield; I have deserved well of their hands; I never did them injury, they ought to have esteemed otherwise of me, they have abused me greatly; who therefore can bear such contempt and miuries? Now if we fight in humbleness3 of mind, against this corrupt reason; we shall fight against our Anger. I suppose ⟨p. 467⟩a brute beast is not so ill in his kind, as a man in his corrupt judgement. Then lowliness in taking a fight of our wants in good and heavenly things, is the thing that will humble us. This is that, which will cut our combs, when we think too well of our4 selves, when we see too much by our painted sheath, this will make us to pull down our peacocks tail.
Then the way to fight against couetousnes, is to fight against the distrust of Gods prouidene, and want1