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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But here is a common objection now a days, used almost in every mans mouth: what sir? what do you tell us of sin? and make so much ado about it? is there not sin in you as well as there is in me? why speak you so much of sin? is it not in other preachers, and in other hearers, as it is in me? why do you cha•ge me so sir? we answer, is there no difference between dimness of sight & blindness▪ is there no difference between numbness and senselessness? between slumbering and dead sleeping? between a little sl•p and a dead1 fall? if there be a distinction to be made of these things, shall we not also put difference between infirmities, and leaving of some good things? and gross sins, and •u••ing headlong to ungodliness? Is there no difference between the error and ignorance which is i• 2Gods children, with grief and with a desire to be freed from them; and the errors and ignorance of the wicked, wherein they gladly he still, and where o• •••• have no care to be •id? No difference between the frail••e and infirmity of Gods children, ••• the sin and iniquity of the wicked? is there no difference between i•fi•••t• and presumptuous▪ frailty, and rebellion? between motion and action? is there no difference between two steppes of a long ladder to the skies, and two steppes at the bottom? ••• between him3 that travaileth, though he attaineth not to the highest steppes, and him that still tarrieth at the ladders foot? Thus we see, they are willingly blind.