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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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If we do rightly and in truth consider of this, we shall be so far from going to the wicked, that if we be among them, we shall hastily separate our selves from them, that we may resort to the children and people of God, which in this verse are called righteous.
If we do rightly and in truth consider of this, we shall be so farre from going to the wicked, that if we be among them, wee shall hastily separate our selues from them, that wee may resort to the children and people of God, which in this verse are called righteous.
The righteous men whose company we must keep, and to whom we must associate1 and join our selves, are here described by two notes. The first note of a righteous man is this, that his life be ordered and guided by the word of God, which shineth out before him as a light to his feet, and a lantern to his paths. When a man therefore hath a desire and care to measure all things by the word, he walketh in the light, his light shineth, he hath an argument that she is a righteous man.
The righteous men whose companie wee must keepe, and to whom we must associate1 and ioyne our selues, are here described by two notes. The first note of a righteous man is this, that his life bee ordered and guided by the word of God, which shineth out before him as a light to his feete, and a lanterne to his paths. When a man therefore hath a desire and care to measure all things by the word, he walketh in the light, his light shineth, he hath an argument that shee is a righteous man.
- 1Two marks of a righteous man. 1