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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.
It is added in this verse, that I may live. So he saith, Portion 10.4. Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live. We see here, that the children of God think they have no life, if they live not in Gods life. For, if we think we are alive, because we see, so do the brute beasts; if we think we are alive, because we hear, so do the cattle; if we think we are alive, because we eat and drink, or sleep, so do beasts; if we think we live, because we do reason and confer, so do the Heathen. The life of Gods children, is the death of sin; for where sin is alive, there that part is dead unto God. Art thou then given to malice, to swearing, to cursing, to breaking of the Sabbath, to adultery, to filthiness, to stealing, or slandering? surely then art thou dead, and if God should take away thy life from thee whilst thou art in this estate, thy soul should go sooner to hell, than thy body to the grave. We now see, that Gods children, finding themselves dull and slow to good things, when they cannot either rejoice in the promises of God, or find their inward man delighted with the law of God, think themselves to be dead.
It is added in this verse, that I may liue. So he saith, Portion 10.4. Let thy tender mercies come vnto me, that I may liue. We see heere, that the children of God thinke they haue no life, if they liue not in Gods life. For, if we thinke we are aliue, because we see, so doe the bruit beasts; if we thinke we are aliue, because we heare, so do the cattell; if we thinke we are aliue, because we eate and drinke, or sleepe, so do beasts; if we thinke we liue, because we doe reason and conferre, so doe the Heathen. The life of Gods children, is the death of sinne; for where sinne is aliue, there that part is dead vnto God. Art thou then giuen to malice, to swearing, to cursing, to breaking of the Sabbath, to adultery, to filthines, to stealing, or slandring? surely then art thou dead, and if God should take away thy life from thee whilest thou art in this estate, thy soule should goe sooner to hell, than thy bodie to the graue. We now see, that Gods children, finding themselues dull and slowe to good things, when they cannot either reioyce in the promises of God, or finde their inward man delighted with the law of God, thinke themselues to be dead.