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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Verse 158. I saw the transgressors and was grieved: because they kept not thy word.
Verse 158. I saw the transgressors and was greiued: because they kept not thy word.
This also in substance we had before, where the Prophet saith, Mine eyes gush out with rivers of water, because they kept not thy law: my zeal hath even consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy word. The Prophets words in a word have this meaning: Lord, as for mine own things or private injuries, I am content to put them up, but when I saw they began to break thy law, this pinched me at the heart. Here we see he was not very nice and delicate, in the defence of his own case, but when it came to Gods cause he was not1 smally moved. Whereby we must learn to translate our zeal to Gods cause, and in defence of his glory, to have our heart blood wax hot, so that even a godly anger with grief be stirred up in us. For this is the difference, between a holy and spiritual anger, and profane and carnal anger: holy anger is with grief of the sin, and without revenge2 of the person: carnal anger is with revenge of the person, and without grief of the sin. Wherefore if we will have our anger holy, it must be tempered with grief, as we did speak before of zeal, wherein we taught, that our anger should feed upon the sin, and compassion should make us bleed with grief for the persons sinning. Well, we may learn, that if we will not swerve from Gods law, we must not only be grieved for our sins, but also for the sins of others. For this is the trial of a godly grief, when we are first grieved with our own, and then are grieved with the sins of others, because true grief beginneth first in our selves, and from our selves it passeth truly unto others.
THis also in substance we had before, where the Prophet saith, Mine eyes gush out with riuers of water, because they kept not thy law: my zeale hath euen consumed me, because mine enemies haue forgotten thy word. The Prophets words in a word haue this meaning: Lord, as for mine owne things or priuate iniuries, I am cōtent to put them vp, but when I saw they began to breake thy law, this pinched me at the heart. Here we see he was not very nice and delicate, in the defence of his owne case, but when it came to Gods cause he was not