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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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CHAP. LXI. Of Sacraments.
God might have wrought miracles without the rod which he willed Moses to use: for he used it not for himself, but for Moses and the people of Israel to help their infirmities: So must we receive the Sacraments as helps, Contra•aereticos. And1 as the rod in it self was a common rod, but being appointed of God for more excellent use, was so to be accounted of them: So water, bread & wine although in themselves common, yet put apart for the use of the Sacraments, are to be esteemed and received as the ⟨p. 787⟩ordinance of the Lord, for the strengthening of our Faith, wherein also the Lord will try our obedience, whether we will worship him in these things which have so small a show.
GOd might haue wrought miracles without the rod which he willed Moses to vse: for he vsed it not for himselfe, but for Moses and the people of Israel to helpe their infirmities: So must we receiue the Sacraments as helpes, Contra•aereticos. And1 as the rod in it selfe was a common rod, but being appointed of God for more excellent vse, was so to be accounted of them: So water, bread & wine although in themselues common, yet put apart for the vse of the Sacraments, are to be esteemed and receiued as the ⟨p. 787⟩