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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 thankfulness of heart made the Prophet, Psal. 116. 12. to cry out, What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits towards me? I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord: I will pay my vows unto the Lord, even now in the sight of all his people: Where we1 see, that it was the custom of Gods people, to stir up themselves after their deliverance unto thankfulness. We shall see now by examining our selves how it is so in us. Oh (say we) ⟨p. 532⟩that I were recovered of my health; oh that the Lord would restore those things to me again which I have lost; then doubtless would I wholly give my self to the Lord. But let us see if in all these things we be not vow-breakers, and are rather grown worse than we were: so greatly are we to fear our selves. God hath delivered us from our enemies, freed us from war•es, saved us from scarcity, penury, poverty, plagues and sickness, and hath blessed us with peace, abundance, plenty, health, and all other blessings, let us see how we use these things. We know the times have been such, when we could not have this liberty, to read and hear the word of God; but we are now freed from such misery, and set in great liberty; whether do we use this time to Gods glory, and increase of our knowledge, and building up of our faith, or not? We know that there is a vicissitude in all things, and one thing succeedeth another; and as the Lord hath long time vexed other nations with trouble, and granted to us a long time of liberty and quietness: so our course must come by the order and change of things to be vexed with troubles, and others shall be set at some liberty. Are we the better then for this benefit? If we be, all is well: if not, will it not, think we, be laid to our charge, that what time the Lord had given us, wherein we might reform our selves, we have abused in being so little reformed, what our time hath been to set forth Gods glory, how little glory the Lord hath gained by us.
This thankfulnes of heart made the Prophet, Psal. 116. 12. to cry out, What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits towards me? I will take the cup of saluation, and call vpon the name of the Lord: I will pay my vowes vnto the Lord, euen now in the sight of all his people: Where wee