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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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let him call for the account and take his reckoning: let us think how we shall stand before him quietly with peace of conscience, who is it that can do it, Esa. 33. 4. let him of us come forth? Alas none shall dare to do it. If the Lord in his own person should appear unto us without Christ a redeemer, we should fly from him with horror and fear, and never be able to stand in his sight.
let him call for the account and take his reckoning: let vs thinke how we shall stand before him quietly with peace of conscience, who is it that can doe it, Esa. 33. 4. let him of vs come forth? Alas none shall dare to doe it. If the Lord in his owne person should appeare vnto vs without Christ a redeemer, we should flie from him with horrour and feare, and neuer be able to stand in his sight.
2 He that searcheth the majesty of God, shall be overwhelmed with glory, but he that searcheth out the mercy, how much more shall he be overwhelmed of ••? His judgements be as a great deep, but the deep of his mercy swallows up that deep. Wherefore well said Chrysostom, Great is the hell of my sins, but greater is the deepness of thy mercy1 O God. The Scriptures attribute to Gods mercy all dimensions. First, depth; it fetched Davids soul from the nether most hell, ergo it reacheth thither. Secondly, breadth; for2 that he setteth our sins us far from, as the East is from the West. Thirdly, length; for it extendeth it self not to the clouds only, but to the stars, which (as Job saith) are not clean in his sight, yea even to the Angels, in whom he hath found folly, so that but for his mercy they could not abide his trial. Nay God is able to forgive us more, than we are able to sin. And indeed mercy is the gate of the Almighty. By no other quality of his can we be suffered to have entrance or to approach unto him. All other things hath the Lord done in measure, number, and weight, saving his mercy in our redemption, wherein without measure & beyond all number and weight he was merciful: two drops of blood had been sufficient, or one cup of his blood, but the whip pierced his skin, the thorns his