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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.
IN that the man of God useth this as a reason before his prayer, it seemeth he was not meanly troubled▪ but sorely vexed, as we may see in joining that which he saith in the verse following: My soul is continually in mine hand, yet do I not forget thy law. Wherein carrying his soul in his hand, he meaneth that he hath no assurance of his life, but is in continual danger of it, as we count those things which be in our hand, to be hardly sure, and1 in peril to slip from us, as we may see by other places of the word. As in the book of Judges, Jephthah saith, I carried my life in mine own hand, that is, I did hazard my life. 1. Sam. 28▪ 21. where the Pythoness saith, I have put my soul in my hand. which is all one, as if she should say, I have ventured my life, or I was at deaths door. Job. 13. 14. Wherefore do I tear my flesh with my teeth, and put my soul in my hand? As if he should say, Why do I put my life in danger? For even as water lying in our hand is soon slipped out; so our soul being in our hand, is said to be at deaths door.
IN that the man of God vseth this as a reason before his prayer, it seemeth hee was not meanely troubled▪ but sorely vexed, as wee may see in ioyning that which he saith in the verse following: My soule is continually in mine hand, yet doe I not forget thy law. Wherein carying his soule in his hand, he meaneth that he hath no assurāce of his life, but is in continuall danger of it, as wee count those things which be in our hand, to be hardly sure, and1 in perill to slip from vs, as we may see by other places of the word. As in the booke of Iudges, Iephtha saith, I caryed my life in mine owne hand, that is, I did hazard my life. 1. Sam. 28▪ 21. where the Pythonisse saith, I haue put my soule in my hand. which is all one, as if shee should say, I haue ventured my life, or I was at deaths doore.