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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 promises of God are free in themselves, in respect of the part going before. First,1 there is nothing at all in us to move the Lord to promise any good to us. That we may look on that first and great promise made to Adam: when the Lord after his fall had charged him with his sin, he doth not confess his sin, which the vilest malefactors often do, but he chargeth the Lord again, that he was the cause of it, and makes his liberality the patron of his iniquity, and so very miserably sets it over to the Lord▪ Even at this time and immediately upon such behaviour the Lord makes his promise to him, that the seed ⟨p. 756⟩of the woman shall bruise the serpents head. Here is no cause of a promise in Adam, he[…]o condition goes before. It is true also, that God made choice for his mercy of the v••e•s people of the earth. Take but the Historiographers, and those that write for the Jews, and s•tting aside all inward gifts of mind whatsoever, and come to their gifts of the body, their2 outward shape and lineaments, and for the very mass of their nature, of all people they were most unseemly and ill-favoured, they were a pernicious and monstrous people, and as far from all gifts even of nature, either of judgement or wisdom, as was under the Sun: nay it were too homely to give them the name, whereby some have set them out. Of these people the Lord makes choice, and makes the first promise to them. So that this is also a free promise, nothing com• to it to move the Lord to make it. And yet to these people the Lord promiseth, Levit. chap. 26. 12. I will walk among you, I will be your God, and ye shall be my people. Again, in the reign of Zedekiah, when the measure of their sin was come to the brim, when they were in the estate of the Perezites, Hivites and Jebusites, the Lord makes another promise with the same people, greater than the former,