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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 We must be followers of God, if not in everlastingness, yet in long lastings. What1 difference between eternity, and a day or two? If our reward be not lease-wise for one and twenty years, but infinite, surely our service must not be by lease, it must not be after the manner of Bethulia, a composition for five days, but all the days of our lives. Christ sweat even blood. Oh he would not give thee over in hell fire, and wilt thou give him over in a fire of reeds?
3 We must be followers of God, if not in euerlastingnes, yet in long lastinges. What1 difference betweene eternitie, and a day or two? If our reward be not lease-wise for one and twentie yeeres, but infinite, surely our seruice must not be by lease, it must not bee after the manner of Bethulia, a compositiō for fiue daies, but all the daies of our liues. Christ sweat euen blood. Oh he would not giue thee ouer in hel fire, and wilt thou giue him ouer in a fire of reedes?
- 1Deus aeternus, aeterna. quid levitati & aeternitati. Praemium aeternum aeternam requirit seruitutem. Jud. 7. •2. Christus perseveravit pro te, tu ergo pro illo.Deus aeternus, aeterna. quid leuitati & aeternitati. Praemium aeternum aeternam requirit seruitutem. Iud. 7. •2. Christus perseuerauit pro te, tu ergo pro illo.
4 When we see good men get new distinctions, as though they had not been well taught before, it is a dangerous thing, Non perseverrae (I say) noxium tibi. Ezech. 33. 13. Have ye suffered so many things in vain, saith Paul, Gal 3. 4.