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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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3 If Christ and his Gospel should go from us, we must follow him, we must go sing the Lords song in a strange land: and this is not all. Those that love thee best, whose souls are knit to thy soul, thou must forsake. O my father Abraham, and O my son Isaac must part, thou must forsake thy father which begat thee, and bring his grey head with sorrow to the grave, thou must forsake the womb that bare thee, and the tears that gave thee suck, let the mother lack the staff of her age, the children of thy loins must thou leave fatherless; and the wife of thy bosom a widow to the wild world. Yet this is ⟨p. 748⟩not all: thou must stretch out thy hands, and let another man gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not. And yet there lacks one thing: Satan's great motive, skin for skin, that for which a man will give all that he hath to redeem his life. All these things will I give thee (saith the devil:) all these things will I take from thee saith Christ, we must be ready to leave them all, or else we are not for him.
3 If Christ and his Gospell should goe from vs, wee must follow him, wee must goe sing the Lords song in a strange land: and this is not all. Those that loue thee best, whose soules are knit to thy soule, thou must forsake. O my father Abraham, and O my son Isaac must part, thou must forsake thy father which begat thee, and bring his gray head with sorrow to the graue, thou must forsake the wombe that bare thee, and the teares that gaue thee sucke, let the mother lacke the staffe of her age, the children of thy loines must thou leaue fatherlesse; and the wife of thy bosome a widow to the wilde world. Yet this is ⟨p. 748⟩not all: thou must stretch out thy hands, and let another man gyrde thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not. And yet there lacks one thing: Sathans great motiue, skinne for skinne, that for which a man will giue all that hee hath to redeeme his life. All these things will I giue thee (saith the diuell:) all these things will I take from thee saith Christ, we must be ready to leaue them all, or else we are not for him.