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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.
I have heard and known amongst us those, that would make accounts first to be well provided for, and then they would serve God in their callings, who having gotten three hundred, or four hundred by the year, then have bin further off then they were before. The second reason is, if any man be so foolish, he shall yet be more foolish, he preferreth the shadow of these transitory things before the eternal things: they shall loose both the shadow & the thing it self, as Aesops dog did.1 Augustine saith, they shall have an end, either their own: that is, they shall leave thee, as Jobs goods did him: or thine, thou shalt leave them, as the glutton in the Gospel: but that which is worst, when they shall have left thee, yet the sin whereby thou gottest them, shall remain with thee▪ Genes. chapt. 4. Sin sleepeth at the door, it is quiet all thy life long, but when we go out of the door of this life, it shall compass about our heels and our hands, and we shall never be rid of it.
I haue heard and knowne amongst vs those, that would make accounts first to be well prouided for, and then they would serue God in their callings, who hauing gotten three hundred, or foure hundred by the yeare, then haue bin further off then they were before. The second reason is, if any man be so foolish, he shall yet be more foolish, he preferreth the shadow of these transitory things before the eternall things: they shal loose both the shadow & the thing it selfe, as Aesops dog did.1 Augustine saith, they shall haue an ende, either their owne: that is, they shall leaue thee, as Iobs goods did him: or thine, thou shalt leaue them, as the glutton in the Gospel: but that which is worst, whē they shal haue left thee, yet the sinne whereby thou gottest them, shall remaine with thee▪ Genes. chapt. 4. Sinne sleepeth at the doore, it is quiet all thy life long, but when wee goe out of the doore of this life, it shall compasse about our heeles and our hands, and we shall neuer be rid of it.
- 1Riches have two ends. 1. Either to leave thee, 2. or thou shalt leave them.