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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.
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.
Was there euer towne, people or person, which truly beleeued in Iesus Christ, in whose ⟨p. 469⟩life and death did not appeare plentifully Gods mercy? And contrarily, how haue the vnbeleeuers bin giuen ouer to hardnes of heart, and a reprobate minde, many plagues, wars, and other iudgements of God to them incident? Old Protestants are now become rustie, because they made no account of Gods word in their youth. Esau lost his Birth-right for a messe of pottage; hee sought it afterwards with teares, but could not haue it, whose prophanesse grew by pleasures. We see many wanton men to come to fearefull ends and silthie adulteries, who beginning to condemne the word, fell to spending, from spending to rioting, from riot to adulterie, from that to theft, and from stealing to death. If we will obserue godly discipline, we must first learne Gods doctrine: if wee will learne his iudgements, we must learne his mercie. We attribute too much to fortune, to fatall destinies, to charmings and such like; but no man doth looke vp to the hand of God, wherein we take his name in vaine, in not vsing aright his iudgements.