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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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4 There are six notes to know a beam by. The first is taken out of that place where Christ saith, it is impossible for a ca•nell to go through a needles eye: and this is to express the absurdity of those which say, as Absalom said, every mans cause was good: these foam out1 sin without shame The second is ser down, Rom 7. where the Apostle speaks of a sin, that by the light of the law he saw to be great and fearful, which before he counted as a shadow, or a mote only. The third note is Revel. 17. a sin of many heads, able to be divided, to be quartered, must be a beam: but a mote cannot, being almost as little as the Geometrical punctum. It is a compound sin. The fourth David speaks of, Psal. 118 22. making relation of certain stones which the builders refused, such as we use to serve at turns, to build the kingdom of ignorance: Thsi must be a beam, & not a mote. A more may be blown out, but a beam can searse be haled out with horses. The sixth is drawn out of that saying of Christ, Hypocrite, pluck the beam out of thine own eye, then thou shalt see: so that is a beam which makes us blind. This is that which Solomon saith, All the workers of in•quitie go astray, knowledge first decayeth. These sins we have, and feel them not; and the greater they be the less grief. These maladies of the soul are contrary to those of the body; for these the greater they be, the more we feel them, the other the less. Those were but small in comparison, and mystical sins, which Paul was so grieved with, Rom. 7. yet he displeased himself in them, and sought the remedy; and when he found it, he esteemed it much. The use of all this is, that we know, when we have motes in our eyes, and that we take heed they grow not to be beams: for there is one will take order they shall not fall out. And to this end, we must labour to have a good judgement, at the first to esteem all sins as beams in our selves.
4 There are sixe notes to know a beame by. The first is taken out of that place where Christ saith, it is impossible for a ca•nell to goe through a needles eye: and this is to expresse the absurdirie of those which say, as Absalom said, euery mans cause was good: these fome out