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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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2 If we preach things whereof we are not fully persuaded, or if we be persuaded of them, yet if they be not sound according to truth, they will trouble our consciences afterwards.
2 If wee preach things whereof wee are not fully perswaded, or if we be perswaded of them, yet if they be not sound according to truth, they will trouble our consciences afterwards.
3 He observed that many would receive the word of God publicly preached with reverence, and being privately spoken, they made no such account of it: wherein men showed themselves not to respect the preacher of God and his word, but some other thing. And that some men (which was a foul sin, and worthy public reprehension) would1 hear a man willingly in the Church, and gainsay his doctrine at home. Wherein they bewrayed, rather that they heard for solemnity of place, more then for any devotion.
3 He obserued that many would receiue the word of God publikely preached with reuerence, and being priuately spoken, they made no such account of it: wherein men shewed themselues not to respect the preacher of God and his word, but some other thing. And that some men (which was a foule sinne, and worthie publike reprehension) would1 heare a man willingly in the Church, and gainsay his doctrine at home. Wherein they bewraied, rather that they heard for solemnitie of place, more then for any deuotion.
- 1Hypocrisy.Hypocrisie.