A02178:3167
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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Again, as if we have gone some part of the journey in light, and yet pass the other in darkness, it is very dangerous: likewise in regeneration, though we have spent some part of our life in the obedience of true knowledge, and in the residue of our life do not escape the willnes of the flesh, we cannot without dangerous darkness hold forth our course in the Spirit. If we mingle light and darkness together, and confound the world and the Church, the wisdom of God, and the inventions of man, we do not as yet truly obey, nor walk in the light of the word.
Againe, as if wee haue gone some part of the iourney in light, and yet passe the other in darkenes, it is very dangerous: likewise in regeneration, though wee haue spent some part of our life in the obedience of true knowledge, and in the residue of our life do not escape the willnes of the flesh, we cannot without dangerous darknes hold forth our course in the Spirit. If we mingle light and darknes together, and confound the world and the Church, the wisedome of God, and the inuentions of man, we doe not as yet truly obey, nor walke in the light of the word.
For as whatsoever is not of Faith is sin, and whatsoever is not in the light is darkness: so whatsoever is not done according to the light of knowledge, is done in the darkness of ignorance. In all our affairs then we must learn to ask counsel of the word.
For as whatsoeuer is not of Faith is sinne, and whatsoeuer is not in the light is darknes: so whatsoeuer is not done according to the light of knowledge, is done in the darknes of ignorance. In all our affaires then we must learne to aske counsell of the word.
Here then is a good comfortable doctrine also, that we are so much in darkness, as in whole or in part we be in ignorance: so whether in part or in whole we be warranted by