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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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Seeing then the scriptures of God allow this kind of prayer, that seeing we know not ⟨p. 529⟩the manifold errors of this life, we might •r••e that we break not […] pre•• […] marvel though the fanta•••e •ll heretics be blowness high, that they […] cannot sin. If Adam in his perfection & in paradise, sinned against the […] who an hundred years continued a just man, •ell in the Ark; •f Moses […] 1earth, was overcome by ••p••ienc•e; if David a man after Gods […] days began to▪ […] his people; •• Hezekiah a good ruler of the […] did break out to v•••glorie, in showing of his treasure; if […]n all things was wo•• to ask cou•sell of the Lord, did no• ••ke […] was to fight against the King of Egypt, though •i••ne •id never […] mon over any of them, and yet after abundance of Gods graces […], sin took hold on them: then what •• hell••h pride of […] of such perfection? And again, here we must beware of the conu[…] ▪ that we g•ue not our selves to much liberty. For though for Gods children, which trou infirmities have lded, this is a oot, yet for them that give the bridle to in o lade hem as it listeth, it is nothing appertaining For it is easier to slip w Gods ilren, then when we have slipped to recover our selves with them ame; easier to fall, to rise again with them and mane have their sins, which have eter their repentance,