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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.
CHAP. XIX. of Death and Judgement.
CHAP. XIX. of Death and Iudgement.
Many make no account of the death of the soul, because they feel it not as they do1 the death of the body. Every man feareth a Palsy, an Epilepsy, and an Apoplexy, because they strike dead: but if a man be in a consumption, where he shall be decaying seven years, he thinks nothing of it. Likewise if an house fall suddenly, we say it perisheth, but if it moulder away we little regard it. In Hosh. 5, vers 7. 12. The Lord threateneth 2to be a Lyon to Israel, and a moth to Judah. Surely, when the wrath of God, as a moth hath secretly fed on us ere we know it, our souls do as it were bleed to death. For as he that bleedeth to death feeleth little, until suddenly his strength faileth; so in the death of the soul, a man doth not perceive how his strength is gone, or ever he be aware. It may be3 the Lord will not be unto us as a Lyon, but as a moth, we shall not happily die of an Apoplexy, but of a consumption, and CHRIST the Saviour shall laugh at our destruction.
MAnie make no account of the death of the soule, because they feele it not as they doe1 the death of the bodie. Euery man feareth a Palsie, an Epilepsie, and an Apoplexie, because they strike dead: but if a man be in a consumption, where hee shall be decaying seuen yeares, he thinks nothing of it. Likewise if an house fall suddenly, we say it perisheth, but if it moulder away we little regard it. In Hosh. 5, vers 7. 12. The Lord threatneth