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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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Vers. 102. I have not declined from thy judgements, for thou diddest teach me.
Vers. 102. I haue not declined from thy iudgements, for thou diddest teach me.
AS if he should say: I have seen and observed, that whosoever did restrain from evil, they were wiser than their enemies, they became more learned than their teachers, and proved graver than the ancient; and that they which did not restrain were greatly1 punished, plagued, and trodden down, and as thou hast punished some, so wilt thou also punish others: wherefore I have not declined from thy judgements.
AS if he should say: I haue seene and obserued, that whosoeuer did resraine from euill, they were wiser than their enemies, they became more learned than their teachers, and proued grauer than the ancient; and that they which did not resraine were greatly1 punished, plagued, and trodden downe, and as thou hast punished some, so wilt thou also punish others: wherefore I haue not declined from thy iudgements.
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Was there ever town, people or person, which truly believed in Jesus Christ, in whose ⟨p. 469⟩life and death did not appear plentifully Gods mercy? And contrarily, how have the unbelievers bin given over to hardness of heart, and a reprobate mind, many plagues, wars, and other judgements of God to them incident? Old Protestants are now become rusty, because they made no account of Gods word in their youth. Esau lost his Birth-right for a mess of pottage; he sought it afterwards with tears, but could not have it, whose profaneness grew by pleasures. We see many wanton men to come to fearful ends and filthy adulteries, who beginning to condemn the word, fell to spending, from spending to rioting, from riot to adultery, from that to theft, and from stealing to death. If we will observe godly discipline, we must first learn Gods doctrine: if we will learn his judgements, we must learn his mercy. We attribute too much to fortune, to fatal destinies, to charmings and such like; but no man doth look up to the hand of God, wherein we take his name in vain, in not using aright his judgements.