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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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CHAP. II. Of the form and rules of Christian admonition.
CHAP. II. Of the forme and rules of Christian admonition.
There are two sorts of sins, some greater, some less: for Christians are1 neither Stoics nor Epicures, for Paul opposeth himself to them both▪ Act. 17 18. they esteem not all sins alike: Neither are they all one with those which have a bottomless charity, who can count all evils infirmities. And there is a third sort worst of all, and they will make every sin a mote, & a beam when they list: the earth is a beam in it self, but a mote in the sky. But we know that all sins are not of one last, Gen. 15. I will not bring in the Israelites till the measure of the sins of the Amorites be full: So there is a full measure, and a wanting measure, all have not one measure. When Paul speaketh of a gangrene, and Job of a sin, which he calleth the rottenness of bones, they mean2 there are divers degrees of sins spreading in our flesh. A Father saith, some sins were scoured by the blood of his hands, but others required his heart-blood, Joh. 19.
THere are two sorts of sins, some greater, some lesse: for Christians are1 neither Stoickes nor Epicures, for Paul opposeth himselfe to thē both▪ Act. 17 18. they esteeme not all sinnes alike: Neither are they all one with those which haue a bottomlesse charitie, who can count all euils infirmities. And there is a third sort worst of al, and they will make euerie sin a mote, & a beame when they list: the earth is a beame in it selfe, but a mote in the skie. But we know that all sinnes are not of one last,