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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
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Patience.
2 There are many who have set a press on their hearts, and purposed to exempt themselves from all grief: others eat up their hearts with grief, as the flesh of the body is eaten up with a corrosive, and so make themselves dull stones, rather than feeling members:1 the mean is not to be too quiet, as without all grief; nor to be unquiet too much, as being without a God.
2 There are many who haue set a presse on their hearts, and purposed to exempt themselues from all griefe: others eate vp their hearts with griefe, as the flesh of the body is eaten vp with a corrosiue, and so make themselues dull stones, rather than feeling members: