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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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Vers. 126. It is time for thee Lord to work: for they have destroyed thy law.
Vers. 126. It is time for thee Lord to worke: for they haue destroyed thy law.
After the man of God in the verses going before had prayed for himself, now he cometh to pray against his enemies, & after he had prayed for ease of his trouble, which he had amongst his enemies, when he himself in the mean time had deserved well of them, and had prayed that his knowledge might be ratified both in the law and Gospel of God; he now cometh, & showeth a reason why he would the Lord should so do with him, even because of the general flood of iniquity, and universal corruption both in religion and manners, as knowing that it was now high time to keep, and to be taught the statutes & testimonies of the Lord, to be confirmed both in obedience & faith, because happy were they that now could believe the law, and keep the covenants, when on no side one might find examples of the one or of the other. His meaning then briefly is this: O Lord, seeing there is no further place left for prayer for them, seeing I have executed judgement and justice1 even to the failing of mine eyes, seeing for all that I can do or say, they wax worse & worse, and whereas before they had some reverence of thy judgements, and now they are grown to the contempt and confounding of thy law, seeing mercy will not prevail with them, but the longer thou bearest with them, the more they are hardened, but judgement must be used, it is time O Lord, to put to thy helping hand. The man of God we see breaketh not out suddenly into this prayer, but upon the great need which urged him thereunto.