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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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Where Gods children steppe into some one sin, and being admonished are therefore sorrowful, and labour to recover themselves, and the wicked wallow in so many sins, and by no admonition can be brought either to a go•ly sorrowing, o• forsaking of their sin: is there no difference between these? Judas and Peter sinned both, and both against their Master: was there no difference, or like danger •• their sins? Is it not one thing for a man to betray his own Master for covetousness of a little money, and another for fear and infirmity to deny him? Is it not one thing to purpose well doing, & yet to f•ll for fear, and another thing willingly to suffer the d•• •••• to carry him from action to action, to have the purse delivered him, to be forewarned of it, to take the sop of him whom he should betray, and yet to persevere in his wickedness? Is there no difference betwixt him, who when he had sinned, wept and •ined away for sorrow; and another, that after he had sinned, having an hell••h desperation, took vengeance of himself? Thus we see, that there is a manifest difference between the sins of the godly, and of the wicked; the sin of the one, was not a purposed sin; the sin of the other wa• forepurposed; the one when he heard ⟨p. 530⟩of his sin, strived to get out of it, the other being admonished was careless. Finally, the one renewed himself by Faith in Jesus Christ: the other having sinned, utterly despaired. For saith the Lord. 2. King. 15. 5. David did right, &c: save only in the matter of […] t•e Hitti•: did not David else sin? we know he numbered his people; •e would have killed1 Nabal; he had conceived an evil of Mbosheth; howbeit the holy Ghost counteth not as it were of these sins, as being done of infirmity, but saith the spirit of God, this was a soul sin. For the other sins the Lord would not deal with them, but passed them over as it were; but this sin must needs be punished. And wherein did this sin become so great above the rest? did he not first sin with his eye, wherewith he had before almost made a covenant? was he not an hypocrite in desiring to hide his sin? when this could not be done, he still was deceived by Satan, and when he saw the fact must needs out, and should come to light, when it should now be known, and the woman must be examined, what did he then?