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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. 128. I esteem all thy precepts most just, and hate all false ways.
Vers. 128. I esteeme all thy precepts most iust, and hate all false wayes.
HE showeth, that there is no sound love of good things, where there is not an hatred of evil. We shall see this by experience, he that loveth to keep the Sabbath, he will hate a profane breaker of the Sabbath: he that loveth chastity will abhor adultery; he that loveth true dealing, hateth all unrighteousness; and surely if we do not in truth love good and hate evil, but be found to halt in hypocrisy, we shall in time be discovered, and one day taken in a trip. In that he useth emphatically, I esteem all thy precepts, he declareth that he loved not one or two, but all the commandments. His meaning then is this: O Lord, there is not one of the least of thy commandments, but I esteem it: there is not one way of falsehood but I abhor it. Now we are to learn not to esteem well of one commandment, which our nature best liketh, and to dispense with another, but true christianity esteemeth all alike, & even that most, which by nature we are most ready to break.
HE sheweth, that there is no sound loue of good things, where there is not an hatred of euill. We shall see this by experience, he that loueth to keepe the Sabbath, he wil hate a prophane breaker of the Sabbath: he that loueth chastitie will abhorre adultery; he that loueth true dealing, hateth all vnrighteousnes; and surely if we doe not in truth loue good and hate euill, but bee found to halte in hypocrisie, wee shall in time be discouered, and one day taken in a trip. In that he vseth emphatically, I esteeme all thy precepts, hee declareth that he loued not one or two, but all the commaundements. His meaning then is this: O Lord, there is not one of the least of thy commaundements, but I esteeme it: there is not one way of falsehoode but I abhorre it. Now we are to learne not to esteeme well of one commaundement, which our nature best liketh, and to dispense with another, but true christianitie esteemeth all alike, & euen that most, which by nature we are most ready to breake.