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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.
3 There is a secret, inward, and spiritual blessing, which the elect feel, when to the1 world they seem accursed: and there is a secret curse to the wicked, when apparently they seem to be blessed.2
3 There is a secret, inward, and spirituall blessing, which the elect feele, when to the1 world they seeme accursed: and there is a secret curse to the wicked, when apparantly they seeme to be blessed.2
- 1A spiritual blessing.A spirituall blessing.
- 2A secret curse.
4 As it is no small benefit though we have not the bright Sun-shining, yet to have the light of it to govern the day, the heat of it to turn away the cold, the effects of it in other1 works of nature: so it is no small mercy, though we have not the shining countenance of the Lord, yet to have the guiding of our affections by the light of it, the possessing of our souls in patience by some feeling of it, and the fruits thereof in the peace of our minds: although we feel not the present beams, yet we shall see them shine hereafter; If we have not this joy of our mind as we would in the day of our vocation, the Lord will plentifully give it us in the day of our coronation.
4 As it is no small benefit though we haue not the bright Sun-shining, yet to haue the light of it to gouerne the day, the heat of it to turne away the cold, the effects of it in other