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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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He that curseth his father or his mother, his light shall be put out in obscure darkness. There is among other, ⟨p. 501⟩one wicked generation, even a generation that curseth his father, and blesseth not his mother; but of such a one, let the Eagle put out his eyes. Hath God so threatened, and will he not punish? 2. King. 2. Little children, who for their age, we would think to be spared, for mocking the Prophet of God Elisha, who cried for vengeance by the secret motion of1 Gods spirit, were by two Bears devoured. Did the Lord punish scorners then, and will he spare them now? For fornication we know twenty four thousand fell on one day, & were2 swept away with the plague, and shall fornication now be unpunished? We stand but by grace, we are but petitioners, we must fear least living in these and such like sins, we be swept away with these and such like judgements. This must make us to fear our selves, to love and believe the word, to grow in repentance, and make our schooling in the judgements of God, some in one, and some in another. We have heard now, how the cause of the Prophets prayer, was the sight of his infirmities: this must stir us up also to private prayer. For though we have received never so many and excellent graces of God, yet3 without prayer shall we not be able to stir up our selves by them. We must see how the man of God, seeing the severe judgements of God, was moved to prayer, that he should not be trodden down and swept away with the wicked. We are likewise to swear to this practise, both to make us cleave faster to the word, & also to make us the more to fear our4 selves. For it is a visible judgement of God, when we see the judgements of God, and are not stayed in fixed faith in the Lord, and a reverent fear of our selves. We have bin taught, because we are given to think that the judgements of God appertain not to us, that the long suffering of the Lord, is to leave the wicked unexcusable, and not to have one of his unsaved, and still calleth some, and doth not execute his judgements, until the measure of sin be fulfilled to the brim, Genet 6. So that he spareth to call his to repentance, to leave the wicked without excuse, who would neither be moved with his promises, nor feared with his judgements.