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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.
CHAP. XLIX. Of the Ministry.
CHAP. XLIX. Of the Ministerie.
IT is to be feared, that the price of the Ministry will daily decay1 and fall less and less: well, how base soever it •eemeth in the eyes of men, how low soever the world account it, when it is at the lowest, it is good, and I protest good enough for any, and too good for some. But it is dangerous with all (which cometh oft to pass, too oft, if it pleased God) if it chance (I say) to be tainted any way, if his preaching be flash, and have non ore taste in it than the white of an egg, for lack of learning, or if it be not throughly powdered with salt, that it may give grace to the hearers, and make their souls thirst after the water of life, for lack of zeal, or if this life have no salt of the covenant, and no part of him be savoury, his case is very dangerous: he is subject to the curse, his ministry is denied a blessing.
IT is to bee feared, that the price of the Ministerie will daily decay1 and fall lesse and lesse: well, how base soeuer it •eemeth in the eyes of men, how low soeuer the world account it, when it is at the lowest, it is good, and I protest good enough for any, and too good for some. But it is dangerous with all (which cōmeth oft to passe, too oft, if it pleased God) if it chance (I say) to be tainted any way, if his preaching be flash, and haue non ore tast in it than the white of an egge, for lacke of learning, or if it bee not throughly powdered with salt, that it may giue grace to the hearers, and make their soules thirst after the water of life, for lacke of zeale, or if this life haue no salt of the couenant, and no part of him be sauorie, his case is very dangerous: he is subiect to the curse, his ministerie is denied a blessing.