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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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for there are some kind of sins like to some kind of devils, which cannot be cast out without prayer and fasting. And when we cannot be healed with ordinary means, the disease still continuing, then must we use extraordinary, which if we do, the Lord will lift us up, and in the end give us power to trample sin underneath our feet. For1 if we had more grief for our chiefest and greatest sins, God would give us a heart to hate them, and to fear the least occasions that might draw us unto them: so should we be for ever preserved from them, they should never prevail against us.
for there are some kind of sinnes like to some kind of diuels, which cannot be cast out without prayer and fasting. And when wee cannot bee healed with ordinarie meanes, the disease still continuing, then must we vse extraordinarie, which if wee doe, the Lord wil lift vs vp, and in the end giue vs power to trample sinne vnderneath our feet. For1 if we had more griefe for our chiefest and greatest sinnes, God would giue vs a heart to hate them, and to feare the least occasions that might draw vs vnto them: so should wee bee for euer preserued from them, they should neuer preuaile against vs.
- 1We must have most grief for our chiefest and greatest sins.Wee must haue most griefe for our chiefest and greatest sinnes.
5 Sin doth much grieve the Lord, although in great mercy he doth long and oftentimes forbear the punishment thereof: which should much move us and cause us when we see our often fallings, greatly to be grieved thereat, and highly to be displeased with our selves for the same, least we fall into presumption. And when our own consciences, & the devil do accuse us for such sins as we have committed against the Lord, as then we are to bewail and lament our goings astray, and displeasing of our God: so are we to trust in his promises, and to embrace his mercies, least we be overwhelmed with grief, and so fall into despair, for the devil ever and continually laboureth to bring us either to the one or the other, presumption or desperation. Therefore when we have sinned, and yet do rebuke our selves, being much displeased with our selves, because of Sin, we are