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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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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 his3 flesh, the nails his bones, the spear his heart, and his very soul was made a sacrifice for sin.
2 He that searcheth the maiestie of God, shall be ouerwhelmed with glory, but he that searcheth out the mercy, how much more shall he be ouerwhelmed of ••? His iudgements be as a great deepe, but the deepe of his mercy swallowes vp that deepe. Wherefore well said Chrysostome, Great is the hell of my sinnes, but greater is the deepenesse of thy mercy1 O God. The Scriptures attribute to Gods mercy all dimensions. First, depth; it fetched Dauids soule from the neather most hell, ergo it reacheth thither. Secondly, breadth; for2