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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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Where our Saviour Christ borroweth his speech from the senses of the body, and translateth it to the powers of the soul. For as every part of the body is lightsome, whilst the eye seeth: so a man being enlightened1 with the word, and the Spirit, having his eyes always to heaven, hath his affections aright: and on the contrary, as all things are loathsome to that body, which for want of the eyes is wholly darkened: so a man sitting in the darkness of ignorance, having his mind wholly set on earthly things, hath his affections disordered.
Where our Sauiour Christ borroweth his speech from the senses of the body, and translateth it to the powers of the soule. For as euery part of the body is lightsome, whilest the eye seeth: so a man being inlightened1 with the word, and the Spirit, hauing his eyes alwaies to heauen, hath his affections aright: and on the contrarie, as all things are lothsome to that bodie, which for want of the eyes is wholy darkened: so a man sitting in the darknes of ignorance, hauing his mind wholy set on earthly things, hath his affections disordered.
- 1Simile▪
Now, that there is no light in us, but all is darkness in our souls, the Apostle Peter doth plainly show it, 2. Pet. 1. 19. We have a most sure word of the Prophets, to the which ye do well, that ye take heed, as to a sure light in a dark place, &c. Where he commending the Christians for their care of the word, showeth, that it is a light in the dark, and teacheth us, that how much knowledge we have, so much we are in good affections. Also Paul, Ephes 4. 17. 18 saith, I testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk nt, as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18. Having their cogitation darkened, and being strangers from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them, &c. Where he showeth, that the man unregenerate hath his mind, understanding, and heart corrupt and blind in that life, which God liveth in his, and that as the man which seeth being in darkness, or in light the blind man gropeth uncertainly; even so all our doing; are endless and headless, which are without the light of knowledge.