A02178:4298
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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they make a mock of it, & therefore bewray they have little conscience of it, and1 therefore they die in their sins, howsoever they have left their sins To deal carefully2 in Gods worship, and faithfully with man, are things both commanded and commended; and yet to do them without zeal of Gods glory, and with a care or our vain glory, ⟨p. 702⟩rather to win credit to our selves, than to gain credit to the Gospel, is neither commended nor commanded. And yet how many beguile their own souls herein, it may appear by so many frequenters of the word, and so few fruitful hearers of the word: if they profit not, it grieves them not; if they remember it not, they •est at it; if they cannot3 speak of it, they scoff at it, and yet they think they be great protestants. Many goodly and godly things we may seem to do before men, and be thought to be petty Angels come out of the clouds, and yet being impoisoned at the hart with vain glory, the Lord hath no delight in us, our own hearts even in these glorious works do accuse us, our consciences do control us, and without repentance, God that is greater than our conscience, will in the end condemn us▪ Contrariwise, be our action never so beggarly for want of ability, never so deformed for want of beauty in the eyes of man; yet if it cometh from a sincere heart, sound and sincere in the eyes of the Lord, it is acceptable, and through Christ accounted righteousness unto us. If then for sins sake we leave sin, and leaving4 sin repent of sin, & repenting of sin leave sin, though the lees of it remain in5 us; if for righteousness sake we labour for righteousness, though an essential righteousness be not inherent in us, though we do not all good we love, but in love desire to do it; though we leave not all sin we hate, but in hatred of it labour to resist it; the good we do is accepted, the good we desire to do is imputed; the evil we leave is discharged, the evil we desire to leave shall not be imputed. True it is indeed no man can say, my hart is upright, I am pure, if he measure himself by the rule of the law, which thing whosoever seeth not by his manifold corruptions, as yet he seeth nothing as he should see: