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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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4 The drunken peace of hypocrites must not be coupled with oil, but pierced with the two-edged sword of Gods word, to the discovering of the secret corruption of the heart.
4 The drunken peace of hypocrites must not be •oupled with oyle, but pierced with the two-edged sword of Gods word, to the discouering of the secret corruption of the heart.
5 It is the temptation of the godly, to fear whatsoever they do, they do it in hypocrisy:1 but they are to know for their comfort, that therefore they be not hypocrites, because they see their hypocrisy; which kind of hypocrisy in them, is not the gross deceiving which is in the wicked, but that secret corruption of nature, which mixeth it self in the best actions of the godly. Neither is it possible to leave this sin wholly, as long as we live, but to see it and mislike it, is all that is required, and can be performed of us. The godly do not desire to seem to do any thing better than indeed they do it: neither2 do they desire to seem to do that which they do not. And whensoever they do ⟨p. 716⟩espy any weakness in themselves, they mourn for it. And this desire of a perfect sincerity, and mislike of privy hypocrisy, is unto them a sure zeal of their salvation and sanctification in Christ.
5 It is the temptation of the godly, to feare whatsoeuer they doe, they doe it in hypocrisie:1 but they are to know for their comfort, that therefore they be not hypocrites, because they see their hypocrisie; which kinde of hypocrisie in them, is not the grosse deceiuing which is in the wicked, but that secret corruption of nature, which mixeth it selfe in the best actions of the godly. Neither is it possible to leaue this sinne wholy, as long as we liue, but to see it and mislike it, is all that is required, and can be performed of vs. The godly doe not desire to seeme to doe any thing better than indeed they doe it: neither