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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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3 If we think we may speak, we will speak too soon: if we think we may keep silence, we will hold our peace too long: when we much love the persons to whom we speak, we slack our zeal in rebuking of sin: if we be zealous against sin, we slack our love to the person.
3 If we thinke we may speake, wee will speake too soone: if we thinke we may keepe silence, we will holde our peace too long: when wee much loue the persons to whome we speake, we slacke our zeale in rebuking of sinne: if we be zealous against sinne, we slacke our loue to the person.
4 We may rebuke publicly, a public offence of a private man on this manner: My brethren, such a sin hath passed from this place, the guiltless need not to be offended, the person guilty is to repent of it.
4 Wee may rebuke publikely, a publike offence of a priuate man on this manner: My brethren, such a sinne hath passed from this place, the guiltlesse neede not to be offended, the person guiltie is to repent of it.
5 His manner was both in espying and reproving of sin, he would not always more sharply reprove the greater sin, nor more earnestly reprehend the lesser sin: but measuring the accidents and the circumstances of the sin, with the quality and degree of the sin it self, he did see that some appurtenances with the sin, did aggravate or extenuate it: So as a greater sin with some circumstances, he thought less to be reprovable,1 and some lesser sin with some accidents, to be more condemnable: even as we see that the Lord did strike with death the man that with a high hand, did but gather sticks on the Sabbath, and yet not punished others so grievously, who of infirmity did more deeply profane the Sabbath.