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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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9 They that will have a true faith in Christ must believe in him, that he is our wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. Are then thy cogitations confounded? Seest thou no knowledge, not so much as a literal knowledge of Christ, but all is doubtfulness, all is dullness, all is deadness in thee, as though thou never knewest, heardest, readest,1 or learnedst any thing? Now know and believe, that whatsoever knowledge, experienced power of understanding, was in Jesus Christ, the same is made thine; he is thine anointing, that will teach thee all. Hast thou knowledge, and yet thy life not brought agreeable or proportionable to thy knowledge? Thou art troubled with thy sins, thou feelest no goodness, thou thinkest thy self as an evil tree void of all good fruit: Now remember2 that as Christ being no sinner, was made of God a sinner, and punished of God as a sinner for thee: thou having no righteousness, art made through Christ righteous, and shalt be rewarded of God as righteous through him. It may be God hath enlightened thee with heavenly understanding, he hath hitherto strengthened thy desire in giving thee to walk ⟨p. 32⟩uprightly; but now thou art afraid thou shalt not persevere, because of thy corruptions: thou tremblest to remember how many excelling thee in gifts and graces have fallen away, and that all is but hypocrisy, thine own heart thou thinkest will one day beguile thee: now call to mind that Christ is made unto thee holiness, not as a new Moses to follow,3 but as a Messiah to believe in, as the author and finisher, of thy holiness; so that to persevere seemeth impossible to thee, yet with him it is possible: yea and more easy to continue thee in holiness being begun, than to convert Zacheus, Matthew, and Mary Magdalen, or to reconcile the Lamb and the Lion, & others which he hath surely done. There4 is one thing yet troubles thee; thou hast many things promised thee, and thou thinkest they are not performed; thou lookest for peace of thy mind, and behold a wound of the spirit; thou art the heir of the whole earth, and yet pinched with poverty; thou art Lord of liberty, and yet liest in prison: it is so, and yet in all this see Christ is thy redemption,