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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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6 The Lord gave Adam a wife to try him withal, and if he had not yielded too much unto her in the time of temptation, no doubt he might have been a great help that she might have been recovered, and neither of them both have so fallen. For had not he yielded unto her he might have continued still in her innocency. Thus then the Lord tried Adam, whether he would continue in his obedience or no: likewise doth the Lord at all times try men in marriage whether they will continue in his obedience, and labour to win their wives also to the faith of Christ. So in like manner the Lord tries the wives whether1 they will be in all things subject to their husbands, as Sarah. For what gifts soever a woman hath, yet not being subject to her busband, they are nothing. For even in mans innocency she was subject, and after the fall it was laid on her as a punishment: so that if she be not obedient she cannot be saved. Yet the Lord other whiles also trieth whether she ⟨p. 743⟩[…]er sobriety and wisdom will as it were break the crookedness of her husband: […] the Apostle teacheth, that the wives must adorn the hidden men of the heart, that […] husbands (albeit then not converted to the faith) might be won by the honest2 […]ersation of their wive•: how much the more then ought those who have Christians […]eir husbands, by their means bring them forward what they may▪ in the profession […]ue godliness? But if they be disobedient, and will requite evil with evil, or with […]e, they do what in them lieth, to overthrow the faith of their husbands. And thus […] Lord trieth wives also, whether they will continue in his obedience. Again, he trieth […] whether they will rest in the love of their husbands only, and be contented there[…] ▪ 3yea when they see their husbands hearts turned from them: for if they will but only […] when they are beloved, they declare that they only love themselves and not their […]nds: for they ought thus to consider, the Lord hath turned my husbands hart from […] because I yielded not to him that duty which I ought, therefore I will not hold on to […]see still, but now I will rather love him more, to see if the Lord will by these means […] his heart again.