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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 Great is the wrath of the Lord; if we look to strength, are we stronger than the Lord?1 Do we think to shift & escape his anger, or that we can abide the furiousness of his wrath? That we cannot escape it, it is plain, for the Lord is every where; if we run from him, we run as in a circle, the further we run from one side, the nearer we run to another, and still we are in the Lord his compass. If we run from the East, he will meet us in the West: the Lord hath a chain for us, and will hold us in darkness, so that easily we shall not be able to escape. Now for making our part good with the Lord, we are not, as Job saith, rocks; or if we were mountains, we should smoke, when the Lord doth blow on us: we are but potsherds, and the Lord hath a rod of iron to bruise us; and such is the power of God, which we shall try in our destruction, if we will not try it in our salvation. What shall we then do? Surely, having so mighty an adversary, it shall be good to seek peace and reconciliation with him. For as this is comfortable, he shall be our Advocate, which is our Saviour, and he that is our Saviour shall be our Judge; so this is as fearful a thing, that he shall be our accuser which is our Advocate. Yet therein is the Lord merciful, that he doth not bring upon us a sudden Outlawry, but he fore-telleth us of his suite, and therefore it is good to be reconciled: and for our reconcilement, because the first part standeth in a confession, we must acknowledge that we have offered as much violence to the law of the Lord as we can, and that so we have forfeited all our benefits, our bread, our sleep, our apparel to the Lord. The confession of the whole plea is lost, if we confess not all, otherwise we are in Adams case to be condemned, who would hide his fault; and in the2 estate of the damned, Matt. 25. who being accused, did plead again, Lord, when saw we thee? or heard we thee? &c. There is no standing out with the Lord; but seeing we have lost all, we must confess all, that for knowledge the pap is still in our mouths, and in respect of3 our lives, we are certainly felonious usurpers of his creatures; and so promise that hereafter we will do otherwise: but if we stand out (I say) with the Lord, nothing is to be