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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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2 Signs are given to confirm us in the word, & are not more excellent than it; if then they draw us from the word, we must hold them accursed as well as the false Prophet, Deut. 12. That which Paul speaketh of tongues, 1. Corinth. chap. 14. is true of all miracles, which are signs to believers, which may teach us not to desire them: for if we believe not. Moses and the Prophets, neither would we believe if miracles were brought from heaven. So is it in the Sacraments, which are ordained to nourish that faith which is engendered in us by the word, and therefore must not be separated from the word, nor esteemed above the word. For we shall then profit truly by Baptism, when we, in and by the word, shall believe1 the washing away of sin, and get power to mortify sin daily within us: and then shall we profit by the Lords Supper, when we believe all the promises of our Redemption, ⟨p. 737⟩wrought by Jesus Christ, and shall be united into his body daily more and more by the word.
2 Signes are giuen to confirme vs in the word, & are not more excellent than it; if then they draw vs from the word, we must hold them accursed as wel as the false Prophet, Deut. 12. That which Paul speaketh of tongues, 1. Corinth. chap. 14. is true of all miracles, which are signes to beleeuers, which may teach vs not to desire them: for if we beleeue not. Moses and the Prophets, neither would we beleeue if miracles were brought from heauen. So is it in the Sacramēts, which are ordained to nourish that faith which is ingendred in vs by the word, and therefore must not bee separated from the word, nor esteemed aboue the word. For we shall then profite truely by Baptisme, when we, in and by the word, shall beleeue1 the washing away of sinne, and get power to mortifie sinne daily within vs: and then shal we profit by the Lords Supper, when we beleeue all the promises of our Redemption,