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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. 154. Plead my cause and deliver me, quicken me according to thy word.
Vers. 154. Pleade my cause and deliuer me, quicken me according to thy word.
This agreeth also in the second place with the second verse of the 16 Port▪ whereof we spake before, Answer for thy servant in that which is good. The children of this world are wiser in their kind, than the children of God, & the man of God had such enemies, as in subtleties were wiser, in force stronger, and more valiant than he; which made him enforce his prayer to the Lord, that he would be his tower against their assaults, and his advocate against all their policies.
THis agreeth also in the second place with the second verse of the 16 Port▪ whereof we spake before, Answere for thy seruant in that which is good. The children of this world are wiser in their kinde, than the childrē of God, & the man of God had such enemies, as in subtilties were wiser, in force stronger, and more valiant than hee; which made him enforce his praier to the Lord, that he would be his tower against their assaults, and his aduocate against all their policies.
Thus we see he trusteth not to the equity of his own cause, but to the Lord: whereby we may gather, that the cause why our oppressors prevail oft against us, is, because we trust too much in our own wits, and lean too far upon our own inventions, opposing