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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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But we are to learn, howsoever the good is done, to rejoice; and howsoever evil is committed, to be sorrowful. We see the Prophet here was not grieved so much because they were his enemies, as because they were the enemies of God. For if he had thought them to have bin Gods children, whatsoever private injury he had received, he could have swallowed ⟨p. 541⟩it up, and more have rejoiced in them, as they had been the children of God, than have been grieved because they injured him.
But wee are to learne, howsoeuer the good is done, to reioyce; and howsoeuer euill is committed, to be sorrowfull. We see the Prophet here was not grieued so much because they were his enemies, as because they were the enemies of God. For if he had thought thē to haue bin Gods childrē, whatsoeuer priuate iniurie he had receiued, he could haue swallowed ⟨p. 541⟩it vp, and more haue reioyced in them, as they had been the children of God, than haue beene griued because they iniured him.
Here then we must learn to bear with the infirmities one with another, but especially1 with the frailties of the children of God: neither are we so heinously to be offended with the infirmities of the godly, as with the presumptuous sins of the ungodly and obstinate. True it is indeed, that our zeal must cause us most to be grieved for the sins of the godly, by how much they were come nearer to the image of God, than others. Howbeit it must always be with a fellow feeling and pitiful sympathy towards them, as the Apostle exhorteth us, Rom. 15. that the same mind should be in us, which was in Christ Jesus, of which place we have spoken often before.
Here then we must learne to beare with the infirmities one with another, but especially