A02178:3168
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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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 by1 the word of God for our doing; so far we have a guide, we have a load-star, a lantern, and a sure light, as Peter witnesseth, to conduct us. The Papists then are here confuted, which say the word containeth hard things: we grant indeed that there are many mysteries in the word of God, and that the testimonies of the Lord are wonderful, especially in the doctrine of salvation, and to a natural man; yet there be many things easy to a man regenerate, and the very entrance into them giveth light to the blind, and to them which are lowly in their own eyes. It is our great corruption, that when we know in part, we2 are as they that have a glimmering sight of their way, and therefore least they should be accounted stark blind refuse a leader. But although we see as in a glass, in part, and in measure, yet as a man may follow, if he be not blind, the light of the lantern: so we may come to knowledge, unless we shut our eyes at the truth. We may therefore as safely for the souls health, follow the light of the word, as we may for the safeguard of our body, follow the light of a lantern.
Here then is a good comfortable doctrine also, that wee are so much in darknes, as in whole or in part we be in ignorance: so whether in part or in whole wee be warranted by