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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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for I have received a reconciliation, then shall his flesh be as fresh as a child's, and shall return as in the days of his youth. And though the Lord punished not gross sins in Job, 1yet he punished incredulity, impatience, self-love & vain glory in him; for though Job were a good man, yet he stood in some need of greater mortification. The Apostle Paul showeth, that the wrath of God should fall on the Corinthians, if they presumed without due examination of themselves to eat the body and blood of Christ, & that from thence came sudden deaths, and unnatural deaths, languishing and pining diseases. 1. Cor. 11. For this cause (saith the Apostle) many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep, for if we would judge our selves we should not be judged: So he speaketh this of the Corinthians, which were learned men; who had great knowledge and excelled in many good gifts, as he himself reporteth of them, and yet he showeth them this truth. Neither do these things especially and only come for sin, but more particularly for the trying of faith, proving and perfecting of patience, although afterward it may be, for punishing of sins by degrees (for even in the trial of faith, and proving of patience, is also a secret punishing of sin.) Wherefore we must not suffer for a while, but even to the shedding of our blood and spending of our lives, as witnesseth the author to the Heb. chap. 12. where the Apostle having set down in the chapter going before a register of the fathers in the old Church, and of their works, (whereof some may also seem to be extraordinary, although indeed they be alleged but as fruits of their faith) inferreth in the 12. chapter this exhortation, Heb. 12 1. Wherefore let us also, seeing that we are compassed with so great a cloud of witnesses, cast away every thing that presseth down, let us run with patience the race that is set before us; 2. looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith: Who for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, and despised the shame, &c. 4. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin, and ye have forgotten the consolation, which speaketh unto you as unto children, &c.
for I haue receiued a reconciliation, then shall his flesh be as fresh as a childs, and shall returne as in the daies of his youth. And though the Lord punished not grosse sinnes in Iob,