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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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10 Every thing in the Sanctuary was double to that which was common, as the Shekel, the Cubit: so ought it to be with the Minister. Tri•les in the Ministers mouth are blasphemies: laughter in him is unseemly, and to move laughter is more unseemly▪ Al• 1will cry and say to them in their infirmities. Art thou become weak also as we? A•t thou become weak like to us? Esa. chap 14 verse 16. *Thy voice truly is Jacobs▪ sweet and soft, but thy hand is the paw of •sa•, rough and hairy Let such a one be called Pastor of the Church, as in comparison of him, the rest may be called a flock. H••r••. ad Ocean. And it is the Canon which the very Papists use in electing of Ministers, Distinct. 25 Whosoever of Aaron's seed had any blemish in him, should not press to offer before God, neither to come near the veil, neither to stand by the Altar, Levit. 21 17 Unless he will3 depart from iniquity, let him not once name Christ his name: his mores will be beams▪ John Baptist is too strait, Christ is too loose, and his disciples wash not their hands before meat. Elisha hath a bald pa••, and one thing or other stands yet in the way: •e delights not, or he ••ifies not. Doth Gods Minister rebuke sharply, then is he too sour; if he admonish mildly, then is he too cold. A Bishop (saith Hierome) must be of such knowledge and holiness, that both his gesture and motion, habit and attie, must (as it were) speak of his gravity, his words and actions must be instructions to his people. And H rome saith, what shall the multitude commend in thee, if they find their own dfori ties in thee? If they find nothing which is not in themselves? If they find that in thee (whom they think to reverence) which being found in themselves would make them blush? Ministers are the Lords messengers, and they must not carry with them (as did Wias) a letter for the knowledge of such things as serve and tend to their destruction. Damnant see ipsos sua voe qui sui similes inferno dmnant, with their own words do they condemn themselves, which do condemn such as be like themselves in the hells. If I ask a