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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.
The meaning then of the man of God briefly is: O Lord give me a right judgement in ⟨p. 483⟩thy judgements, that I may see how thou savest thy children, and punishest thine enemies, otherwise I shall never discern this. Accept the free offerings, &c.
The meaning then of the man of God briefly is: O Lord giue me a right iudgement in ⟨p. 483⟩thy iudgements, that I may see how thou sauest thy children, and punishest thine enemies, otherwise I shall neuer discerue this. Accept the free offerings, &c.
We must mark how these things are joined together, this is the thing, for which I sacrifice,1 the thing I wish, I desire and pray for, and therefore O Lord accept it. The man of God alludeth here to sacrifices, and showeth, that the Lord is delighted with no sacrifice more, than with prayer and thanks-giving. For all other sacrifices in the time of the law, as the slaying of goats, & killing of bullocks, tended to these two, as appeareth. Psal. 50. 14. Offer unto God praise, and pay thy vow to the most high: and in the 22. vers. He that offereth unto me praise. shall glorify me, &c. In which places the Lord showeth, that he had ordained the other sacrifices, as temporal means to the eternal use of thanksgiving: for so the Lord dealt with them, as with children, leading them as it were by the hand, by temporal things to eternal. Psal. 14 1. 2. the Prophet saith: Let my prayer be directed in thy sight, as incense, and the lifting up of mine hand, as an evening sacrifice. Where he showeth, alluding to the sacrifices, that as a sweet smell is pleasant unto man: so is the sacrifice of prayer fragrant unto the Lord. This is the sacrifice every day to be offered, mentioned in