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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. 157. My persecutors and mine oppressors are many: yet do I not swerve from thy testimonies.
Vers. 157. My persecutors and mine oppressors are many: yet doe I not swarne from thy testimonies.
This sentence is the same in effect with divers other in divers portions of this Psalm. As, The proud have had me exceedingly in derision: the proud have digged pits for me: the wicked have laid a snare for me, and such like.
THis sentence is the same in effect with diuers other in diuers portions of this Psalm. As, The proude haue had me exceedingly in derision: the proude haue digged pits for me: the wicked haue laid a snare for me, and such like.
Now in that he saith, my oppressors are many: he showeth that he had not to do with one man or two, but with many. It is a matter, as we have showed before, to be godly among the godly. but he is a devil, that is evil among Angels, and therefore was he worthily cast down into hell: and he is a sinner, that will sin among Saints, and therefore justly was Adam thrown out of Paradise. If we live among the godly, what praise is it to be godly? nay, what an horrible thing were it not to be godly? If the Church discipline were truly executed, it were a small commendation to do well, and to abstain from sin; yet now in this want, it is praise-worthy to abstain from sin for fear of God. But it may be we taste not of such troubles, as the Prophet tasted of, because we live not so careful of godliness, as he did, which if in truth we did, we should have troubles as he had. Well, we are in this world as sheep among wolves, to try us, whether we will be corrupted with the evil examples of this world, or whether we will swerve from the Lord our God, whilst he proveth us.