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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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That what judgement soever the Lord hath written down in hi• word, and we have either credibly heard reported the like with our ears, or seen them with our eyes, they ought to be unto us examples, and ratify to us the truth of Gods judgements, that as he hath promised to punish, and indeed hath punished such and such sins; so he would do it in us for the like, and as sometime he hath even enwrapped his children in the like judgements, though not to that end, for which he punished the wicked; but as they have been partakers of the sin in part, so they have sustained the punishment in part: so we must know that he will punish the same sins, even1 in us, or spare us, if we be without them. Howbeit, the godly shall not have the like judgement with the ungodly. He will not consume us as dross, but will try us as silver, he will not trample us under his feet, bu• humble us under his hand. Wherefore as in the sweet promises of God, there is a reverent fear: so in our infirmities, we must learn with David to fear much more. Genes. 10. We read, how God trod down the pride of them, that built the tower of Babel. When Pharaoh was advancing himself over the people of God, the Lord trampled him down with ten plagues, and trod him under foot in the red Sea. Exod 14 when Chorah, Dathan, and Abiram rebelled against God, and rose so insolently against Mo•ses and A•ron his ministers; the Lord trod them down, even into the earth, which opened her mouth and swallowed them up quick. The whole world for their ripeness of sin, did he destroy from the face of the earth, and scoured it with a purging water. The Lord pursued the land of the Sodomites, until it lay at his foot, which before was as a Paradise▪ The Lord swept away the Israelites, that they could not come to that plentiful and promised land. How often do the histories record, how God trod down many with wars, and swept away others with plagues? For as the Goldsmith purgeth the dross from the gold, and the potter treadeth the unprofitable clay to mi•e; even so the Lord purgeth & treadeth down his enemies. This must make us to fear, for many men dangerously pervert their souls, and Satan beguileth them with many shifts. But heretics and profane men say, The judgements of God indeed in times past have been great, but what is that to us?