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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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Our ears are not ours, none of our members are ours▪ his they are, even CHRISTS, he hath bought them at an high price, and from him we have them and we have them for none other end, no• by no other condition, but that we should hear, when, and what he would have us to hear. And let him be Anathema, that suffereth any of his sayings to fall to the ground. Put Anathema, Ma•anath•. to him and his ears, that shall not regard his saying. This sealed saying and two edged exhortation, which Luc. 14. he useth to teach the foundation of the Ministry, which is the foundation of the Church of God, which is the foundation of the whole world. And those mark well, if there be any among you that hath ears, and is willing to employ them well, here he may do it. This is a faithful saying, and of all most worthy to be remembered: and therefore he that hath ears to hear any thing, let him hear this. And he that heareth it not, or heareth it with no regard, the days shall come when his ears shall make his heart ache, and when for not hearing this he shall hear another sentence, a glooming fearful sentence, such a one as who so heareth it, both his ears shall tingle. Zachar 7. Because I cried and you would not hear, you shall cry another while, and I will not hear you for ever. And therefore hearken unto me, that God may hearken unto you, Jud. 9. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. When such fresh and well fenced exhortations come, we must make this use of them, that the holy Ghost is not wont to make a beam of a mo•e, he talketh of mint and anise, as of mint and anise, he useth not so much as a figure, but where the matter deserveth ten. And therefore when the holy Ghost falleth to amplify, we are to think1 there is some great matter no doubt, and there is more in it then we take: and if no speech of his be idle or empty, we are surely to think, that his epiphonemas least of all are so, and that they especially are, Yea and Amen. And therefore seeing such a thing is no ex• tericall matter, but an acromaticall point of doctrine of the holy Ghost, seeing he altereth