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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.
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.
This great danger wherein he is, he useth as a third reason, to move the Lord to hear his prayer: for by this means it came to pass that his prayer was more earnest. The greatness of his grief he amplifieth in the 109. and 110. verses.
This great danger wherein hee is, hee vseth as a third reason, to moue the Lord to heare his prayer: for by this meanes it came to passe that his praier was more earnest. The greatnes of his griefe he amplifieth in the 109. and 110. verses.
And in this extremity of grief, we shall see that he had good cause to pray earnestly, if we do consider the reasons which flesh and blood would put in to his mind. For first when he saw that he was in such straits, that he could not see means or ways to be delivered, then his reason would persuade him to leave the light of the word, as a thing that in this case showed no light, and to use policy for to help himself. This is a great temptation, and if God had not assisted him, he might have fallen hereby. For we see that Saul, when the Lord gave him no answer, by Urim and Thummim, nor other ordinary means, he thought good in policy to ask counsel of a Witch; which he before time had punished with death. Thus would corrupted judgement have carried him to use policy and unlawful means, and to have forsaken the lantern of the word, if the Lord had not stayed him: and therefore this was one cause to move him most earnestly to pray.