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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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Notable is that place, Ezech. 9. 4▪ where the Lord speaketh to the man clothed with linen, •••en had the writers inkhorn, saying: Go through the •••• of the […]en through the most of Jerusalem and •••• mark upon the f••e• e•a•s o• th•• that […] and are sorrowful for all the abominations that are done in the mast thereof. But the other was commanded to follow after, and to destroy every mothers son of them which mourned not. This then is no st•••ge thing when Gods glory and image is defaced, to be grieved as much as if it were for ourselves. 1. Cor. 5 the Apostle rebuketh the Co••nt•ians, because they rested and rejoiced at the sin committed amongst them, contrary to the rule of love, which willeth us not •o••i• y•e i• inu•••••, and telleth them that they had not mourned, and showeth how they had •a••hed at him, when they should rather have mourned. Where he declareth in his own example, who was so grieved, that where he had preached the Gospel, one should fall into so great a sin, how all faithful Ministers, godly Magistrates, and Christian householders may and ought to mourn, when some of the cha•ge con •ite to them, fall into some notorious sin. And though for a while he was sorrowful that he had made them so heavy, yet afterward 2. Cor 7. he telleth them that he was not sorry: For (faith he) though I mad you sorrowful, I repent not: for behold this thing, that y ave been godly sorrowful, what great tare it hath wrought in you? yea what laing of our selves? yea, what indignation? yea what fear? yea what great desire? yea what a zeal? yea wa pishmnt? In all thing you have showed yourselves that ye are pure in this matter. As if he should say; Before the rejoiced and then were ye guilty of his blood: but now that ye have ourne and prayed for him, it shall not be laid to your charge. Thus we see the Church was not clear, until they had mourned for this one mans sin; no more was the whole arie of the Israelites, until they had humbled themselves in prayer and fasting for the sin of A . Wherefore every man must labour in some measure, to find the same affection in himself which was in Christ, that we may differ from the hypocrites, who esteem their own credit more than the credit of the word.