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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Twelfth, under the cloak of religion, zeal and conscience, when deep in their hearts they hide some other meaning, as Simeon and Levi in procuring the Sichemites to be circumcised, as Absalom in making the shadow of his conspiracy the performing of his vow in Hebron, as Jezebel making the way to bloodshed on the innocent by the proclamation of a fast, as Caiaphas adjuring Christ in Gods name to make them know who he was, that way to take him.
Twelfthe, vnder the cloake of religion, zeale and conscience, when deepe in their hearts they hide some other meaning, as Simeon and Leui in procuring the Sichemites to be circumcised, as Absolom in making the shadow of his conspiracie the performing of his vowe in Hebron, as Iezabel making the way to bloodshed on the innocent by the proclamation of a fast, as Caiphas adiuring Christ in Gods name to make them knowe who hee was, that way to take him.
11 Hypocrisy is seen when sin most lieth dead under a cloak, and most lieth in a closet, wherewith God is displeased, that when we make no conscience of sin in close places, our privy sins shall break out in public places.
11 Hypocrisie is seene when sinne most lieth dead vnder a cloake, and most lieth in a closet, wherewith God is displeased, that when wee make no conscience of sin in close places, our priuie sinnes shall breake out in publike places.
12 The holy Ghost, Ezech. 24. 6, compareth hypocrites to a pot that outwardly seetheth, but within the scum remaineth. And Hosea in his 7. chapter compareth them to a