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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.
Concerning particular covenants, they are either simply according to Gods word, or1 else taken up for some special end, either as means to come to some good, or else as bridles to avoid some evil, as 2. Chron. 15. 12. When the people made a covenant to seek the Lord, &c. 14. They did swear unto the Lord with a loud voice. Also Nehem. 10 the people take a new oath and seal it. Ezra. 9 where we may see, that when Ezra had wept and fasted for the sins of the people, in that they had taken strange wives of the people of the Lands. 3. Made them to make a covenant with the Lord, and to put away their strange wives: as also Nehem. 5. On this sort Jeremiah persuadeth his people, chap. 34 to make a covenant concerning the liberties of their servants, and denounceth the fierce wrath of God upon them, for breaking their promise. Of these two kinds of covenants, •he self same rules are to be prescribed. If we feel in our selves any special dullness, we must bewail it, and when we see that we have the more straits of mind, we must stir up our selves and not neglect the means. We speak not here of free vows, but of such as the word of God commandeth, and that for fear of relapse and falling from the Lord, we may use these means, more surely to tie us unto him.
Concerning particular couenants, they are either simply according to Gods word, or1 else taken vp for some speciall end, either as meanes to come to some good, or else as bridles to auoide some euill, as 2. Chron. 15. 12. When the people made a couenant to seeke the Lord, &c. 14. They did sweare vnto the Lord with a lowd voyce. Also Nehem. 10 the people take a new oth and seale it.