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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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And this fire of the Lord is sudden,1 and continual in that day, when no Tertullus can stand us in stead to plead for us, no bribe will be able to speak for us, for that will be a terrible day for all bribers. But suppose he would take a bribe, what bribe wilt thou give him for the sin of thy soul? The whole world is not enough, but though it were, the whole world shall be destroyed, how then canst thou give it?
And this fire of the Lord is sodaine,1 and continual in that day, when no Tertullus can stand vs in stead to plead for vs, no bribe will be able to speake for vs, for that will be a terrible day for all bribers. But suppose he would take a bribe, what bribe wilt thou giue him for the sinne of thy soule? The whole world is not enough, but though it were, the whole world shall bee destroyed, how then canst thou giue it?
- 1Simile.
4 If we will be truly provoked to mercy, first let us look to the Lord himself, whatsoever1 he can do, there is mercy with him. All his ways, saith the Prophet, are mercy: he hath stepped no where, in heaven, in earth, or in the seas, but the Lord hath left some print of his mercy behind him, if we could follow him in those paths he went in. Secondly, the earth doth not only receive this print of Gods mercy, but repays mercy to us again: and surely, if the creatures should not be merciful to us, men were in an evil case. Now because2 all mercy consisteth either in giving or forgiving; and there is no mercy but it is in one of these two, therefore in respect of both these we shall see how the Lord esteems it. First, for the mercy of forgiveness,