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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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Vers. 143. Trouble and anguish are come upon me: yet are thy commandments my delight.
Vers. 143. Trouble and anguish are come vpon mee: yet are thy commaundements my delight.
See here is a further thing. The sense then of the words is this. Seeing thy righteousness •s constant, and there is one constant rule of it; therefore, where besides my contemning I feel also trouble. I do not only forget thy word, but also much delight in it. See a rare gift in the man of God: for this is a singular gift of God, not only in anguish to be heavily troubled, but also to be comforted; not to do good heavily, but to do it cheerfully.
SEe here is a further thing. The sense then of the words is this. Seeing thy righteousnes •s constant, and there is one constant rule of it; therefore, where besides my contemning I feele also trouble. I doe not onely forget thy word, but also much delight in it. See a rare gift in the man of God: for this is a singular gift of God, not onely in anguish to bee heauily troubled, but also to be comforted; not to doe good heauily, but to doe it cheerefully.
In that he useth as it were a doubling of the word trouble and sorrow, he showeth his grief to be the greater. It is •n hard matter not to forget God in trouble, but a far greater matter then to have a delight and a pleasure in the word, yet so it is that if we can come near the one, we shall also come near the other. Here is our strength, if we forget not the word, and nourish not unbelief, joy and delight will come after; because it is the mercy of the Lord inwardly to recompense that which outwardly he detracteth from us.