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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.
Vers. 109. M• soul is continually in mine hand: yet do I not forget thy law. Vers. 110: The nicked have l•ida snare for me: but I swerved not from thy precepts.
Vers. 109. M• soule is continually in mine hand: yet doe I not forget thy law. Vers. 110: The nicked haue l•ida snare for me: but I swarued not from thy precepts.
BY this phrase is meant that he was at the point of death, as it may be seen by other places of the Scriptures: as when the Ephraimites were angry with Jephthah because he went to war without them, he answered, I put my life in my hand, &c. The Witch likewise which spake to Saul, useth the same speech, and I have put my soul in my hand, &c. And Job saith, why should I rent my flesh with my teeth, or carry my soul thus in my hand, &c. Where he meaneth that he was at deaths door. My soul sainteth, mine eyes fail, I wither like a bottle, and such speeches declare his misery.
BY this phrase is meant that hee was at the point of death, as it may bee seene by other places of the Scriptures: as when the Ephramites were angrie with Iephtha because he went to warre without them, he answered, I put my life in my hand, &c. The Witch likewise which spake to Saul, vseth the same speech, and I haue put my soule in my hand, &c. And Iob saith, why should I rent my flesh with my teeth, or carry my soule thus in my hand, &c. Where he meaneth that he was at deaths doore. My soule sainteth, mine eyes faile, I wither like a bottle, and such speeches declare his miserie.