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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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This doctrine is manifest in the second commandment, where the Lord saith; I will have 1mercy upon thousands of them that love m•, and keep my commandments: Mark, he saith not, that he will reward them that are truly zealous in the worshipping of him, but he saith, that he will show mercy v•to them. For it is both the mercy of God, that we have grace to do the will of God in our first beginnings; it is the mercy of God, that we have grace to continue in doing his will in our after proceedings.
This doctrine is manifest in the second commandement, where the Lord saith; I wil haue 1mercie vpon thousands of them that loue m•, and keepe my commandements: Marke, he saith not, that he wil reward them that are truly zealous in the worshipping of him, but he saith, that he will sh•w mercy v•to them. For it is both the mercie of God, that we haue grace to doe the will of God in our first beginnings; it is the mercie of God, that we haue grace to continue in doing his will in our after proceedings.
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This is a comfortable doctrine, when we remember that the rarest and dearest servants of God did renew the mercies of the Lord towards them, by craving that his graces might be renewed in them. Mercy it is that moveth God, to begin any grace in us, it is mercy to continue us in grace, it is mercy that he crowneth his gifts in us. When the Lord then will bestow any merciful thing upon us▪ he preventeth us by bestowing also some grace upon us. For if we respect our selves, we are so far from any right challenging of any new grace or mercy to be given us, that we are most worthy to be deprived of the old graces already received.