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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.
I hate and abhor, &c This showeth that he had no light hatred, but a thorough hatred of it, which is also showed, Psal. 139. 21. Do I not hate them O Lord that hate thee? And do not I earnestly contend with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with an unfeigned hatred, as they were mine utter enemies. Prou. 29. 27. A wicked man is an abomination to the just, and he that is upright in his cause, is an abomination to the wicked. True hatred hath this nature, to abhor the thing hated, as a dainty woman abhorreth to touch a toad. And we express this thing in our affections, breaking oft into these speeches: I abhor it, I cannot abide to hear of it, I quake, I shake, I am the worse when I hear it.
I hate and abhorre, &c This sheweth that he had no light hatred, but a thorow hatred of it, which is also shewed, Psal. 139. 21. Doe I not hate them O Lord that hate thee? And doe not I earnestly contend with those that rise vp against thee? I hate them with an vnfained hatred, as they were mine vtter enemies. Prou. 29. 27. A wicked man is an abomination to the iust, and he that is vpright in his cause, is an abomination to the wicked. True hatred hath this nature, to abhorre the thing hated, as a daintie woman abhorreth to touch a toad. And we expresse this thing in our affections, breaking oft into these speeches: I abhorre it, I cannot abide to heare of it, I quake, I shake, I am the worse when I heare it.
We are here taught then, that as love being cold will soon fail, so our hatred being1 cold, will soon slake; and as love must be hot, if we will have it continual, so hatred must be with abhorring, if we will have it permanent. Wherefore we see, where our first love waxeth cold to prayer, and the not abhorring of the want of prayer is, there we fall into a carelessness of prayer: and where our zeal is not hot against sin, and sinners, and we