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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 Many and few be respective words, for so it is said in one place, that David had many1 sons. How many? seven: and in another place David is said to have a few soldiers. How few? seven hundred. So in that respect seven are a great many, and seven hundred a few. Again least we should think a multitude to consist only of rude and unlearned, and poor people, we must know, that by vulgus is meant not only those that have chl•mydes, but those that have coronas also, not only those, that go in round caps, but them that go in square caps also, & we may hear as vulgar speeches of the learned, as of the unlearned. The 400. Prophets although they were learned, yet they were a multitude, and had a lying spirit in them. And certain it is, they never prove truly learned, that lack religion, and the true fear of God, their wits serve them but to vulgar uses, and to discover themselves.
3 Many and few be respectiue words, for so it is said in one place, that Dauid had many1 sonnes. How many? seuen: and in another place Dauid is said to haue a few souldiers. How few? seuen hundred. So in that respect seuen are a great many, and seuen hundred a few. Againe least we should thinke a multitude to consist onely of rude and vnlearned, and poore people, we must know, that by vulgus is mēt not only those that haue chl•mydes, but those that haue coronas also, not only those, that goe in round caps, but them that goe in square caps also, & we may heare as vulgar speeches of the learned, as of the vnlearned. The 400. Prophets although they were learned, yet they were a multitude, and had a lying spirit in them. And certaine it is, they neuer proue truely learned, that lacke religion, and the true feare of God, their wits serue them but to vulgar vses, and to discouer themselues.
- 1How this word vulgus is to be taken.