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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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7 Some when they have sinned reason thus, the Lord doth not punish me for my si[…]s, therefore he hath forgiven them; but this kind of reasoning is false and dangerous, because it abuseth the great mercy of God to hardness of heart: and that the Lord will punish, though he forbear for a time, it is plain, Exod. 34. 7. Which if we would consider, then would the goodness and the long suffering of the Lord lead us to repentance, Rom. 2. •4.
7 Some when they haue sinned reason thus, the Lord doth not punish me for my si〈…〉s, therfore he hath forgiuen them; but this kind of reasoning is false and dangerous, because it abuseth the great mercie of God to hardnesse of heart: and that the Lord will punish, though he forbeare for a time, it is plaine, Exod. 34. 7. Which if wee would consider, then would the goodnes and the long suffering of the Lord lead vs to repentance, Rom. 2. •4.
8 The Lord will spare his judgements in them, in whom he s•eth a true love of true Religion: for they that love Religion will desire to hear, and hearing the word, they wil••ot fall to any sin, or if they fall into sins, they will not lie in them long.
8 The Lord wil spare his iudgements in them, in whom he s•eth a true loue of true Religion: for they that loue Religion will desire to heare, and hearing the word, they wilot fall to any sinne, or if they fall into sinnes, they will not lie in them long.