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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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Wherefore here doth fitly come in the sixth rule, which is, that then we shall most surely know when our zeal is right; when we are much moved, when God is much grieved; and1 we are much grieved, because our brother hath so offended.
Wherefore here doth fitly come in the sixt rule, which is, that then we shall most surely know when our zeale is right; when we are much moued, when God is much grieued; and1 we are much grieued, because our brother hath so offended.
- 1The sixth rule •• zeal.The sixt rule •• zeale.
Here is an excellent and infallible difference between godly zeal and fleshly anger. When the grief of our brothers falling meeteth and is mixed with the anger of his sinning against God, our anger shall not feed it self upon the party because of our wrath, but of his sin, because of our zeal. In pure zeal therefore there must be anger for offending God, and grief because our brother hath offended. When our Saviour Christ went about to heal the man that had the withered had, the Pharisees that stood by murmured, because he would heal on the Sabbath day, it is said that he looked about him angerly, and yet it is added that he sorrowed for the blindness of their hearts. Mark here in this notable example, how anger and sorrow meet together. Anger, that men should have so little knowledge of God and love of their brother: sorrow, that through ignorance, they were so foully overseen. So likewise in zeal of his father Christ looked on Jerusalem with an hatred to their sin, and yet with a pity to their misery, which was at hand, he wept over it. Mark this in all the Prophets from time to time, whether it hath not bin so in them. ⟨p. 547⟩