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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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3 In Pharaoh ye shall find these special notes of Hypocrisy:1 Take this death from me, only this once. So many being in distress, have more prayed for the release of pain, than for the forgiveness of sins, which cause the pain. And therefore such being released are nothing the better, as may often be observed. Contrariwise,2 if we be grieved more for sin, than for the punishment, and can well bear the punishment, so that the sin were taken away, then it is a certain sign that we shall live uprightly, if the cup of affliction be taken from us: and assuredly it shall be taken away, or else recompensed with some spiritual grace.3
3 In Pharaoh ye shall finde these speciall notes of Hypocrisie:1 Take this death from me, one•y this once. So many being in distresse, haue more prayèd for the release of paine, than for the forgiuenes of sinnes, which cause the paine. And therefore such being released are nothing the better, as may often be obserued. Contrariwise,2 if we be grieued more for sin, than for the punishment, and can well beare the punishment, so that the sinne were taken away, then it is a certaine signe that we shall liue vprightly, if the cup of affliction be taken from vs: and assuredly it shall be taken away, or else recompenced with some spirituall grace.3
- 1Trial of our joy after affliction.Triall of our ioy after affliction.
- 2Sickness.Sicknes.
- 3Note well.