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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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9 The refuge of Moses was by prayer to fly unto the Lord, and this is the manner and dealing of all the dear children of God, not to keep close their grief within themselves,1 but by prayer to make it known unto their God, that in him they may find help. If we then, when grief oppresseth us, can pray unto the Lord and make known our requests unto him, we may have hope, that in his good time he will deliver us: but if our grief do so trouble us, that it causeth us to fret so, that we can seek no help for it, or else do in our own strength fight against it, there is small hope of our deliverance.
9 The refuge of Moses was by prayer to flie vnto the Lord, and this is the manner and dealing of all the deare children of God, not to keepe close their griefe within themselues,1 but by prayer to make it knowne vnto their God, that in him they may finde helpe. If wee then, when griefe oppresseth vs, can pray vnto the Lord and make knowne our requests vnto him, we may haue hope, that in his good time he will deliuer vs: but if our griefe doe so trouble vs, that it causeth vs to fret so, that we can seeke no helpe for it, or else doe in our owne strength fight against it, there is small hope of our deliuerance.
- 1To manifest our grief by prayer unto God.To manifest our griefe by prayer vnto God.
10 Moses prayed sometime very unperfectly, and yet then the Lord heard him, which teacheth us that the Lord doth greatly like of prayer, yea though it be after a stuttering manner, as Hannah prayed in the Temple; or if it he but a chattering, as Hezekiah prayed in1 his sickness: yet if it be in the bitterness of the soul, and in the uprightness of the heart, the