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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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That we then may make this our rule for examination, why are we so cold in zeal? even because we are cold in the love of the word. For as our love increaseth, so increase also our delight and grief: our delight to see the thing loved to have happy proceedings; our grief, to see the thing which we love, to be despised.
That we then may make this our rule for examination, why are we so cold in zeale? euen because we are cold in the loue of the word. For as our loue encreaseth, so encrease also our delight and griefe: our delight to see the thing loued to haue happie proceedings; our griefe, to see the thing which we loue, to be despised.
This we see to be in every kind of love. For a man that truly loveth his wife ▪ cannot abide to see his wife contemned and discredited: nor the woman that truly loveth her husband can abide to see him rejected and despised. When we love our friend, we are grieved to see any contempt offered unto him. This then we see in the nature of true love, to rejoice to see the person loved, advanced, or the thing which we love, esteemed; and grieved, to see either the person or thing so loved, to be cast down and contemned. It was a grief even to the Heathenish Philosophers to see their doctrine not regarded: were they so moved for the small regard of that earthly doctrine, which had no exact truth in it, but was mingled with infinite errors and untruths, and shall not we much more be moved, to see the word of God, which hath so exact a truth, and no untruth, contemned and little set▪ by? wherefore when we have not this godly grief in us, it is a manifest argument, that our love is very cold. For as our love is the greater, so undoubtedly our grief will be the greater; and so as our love is the less, so will our grief to see the thing defaced, be also the less. When we have much delight in any thing, we are much grieved, and who are more grieved to see the word of God trodden down, than the godly? because of all other, their delight is most in it. Not without cause then is this love commended unto us, to be a token of our zeal, and therefore we see