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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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7 A man may have a good wit, and yet be subject to the secret curse of God.
7 A man may haue a good wit, and yet be subiect to the secret curse of God.
8 A good wit not sanctified, is a fit pray for the Devil.
8 A good wit not sanctified, is a fit pray for the Diuell.
9 There are divers kinds of folly. Solomon saith, A wise man is not a stranger in the1 congregation of the Lord: so then this is a foolishness, not to come to the congregation of Gods people. In Pauls time it was said, be not foolish but redeem the time: th•• then is2 also folly to loose time. In the time of Moses and Jethro, to give authority and titles in the3 highest degrees to them that deserve them not, by Jethroes judgement was folly, and we4 do in these times the very same. Well, all these are fools which can do us no harm, those that are alive are no fools, so long as they can do hurt. And such as help us to preferment, we call them wise whatsoever we think of them: there are two kinds of fools, one a sot for ignorance, or a crazed fool, as he that hath a disease only. There is another fool, and he hath the carcass of folly, and he may well be called the child of folly: This is stinking folly, and brutish folly. Chrysostom faith, Better to be found a beast than to become like a beast, for the first is of nature, the last is of sin. If it be foolishness to be ignorant