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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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11 A certain godly and especial friend of his making known his purpose in taking1 physic to help him in a less infirmity, he said, Sir your physic may ease you of some pain, but I hope it shall not purge you of the favour of God: for although you be eased in this, yet for that God loveth you, he will meet with you in some other thing.
11 A certaine godly and especiall friend of his making knowne his purpose in taking1 physicke to helpe him in a lesse infirmitie, he said, Sir your physick may ease you of some paine, but I hope it shall not purge you of the fauour of God: for although you be eased in this, yet for that God loueth you, he will meete with you in some other thing.
- 1If a cross be removed before we profit by it. God will send an other.If a crosse be remoued before we profit by it. God will send an other.
12 Asa was reproved, because he sought not the Lord when he was sick of the gout, which was a punishment of his unlawful covenant, 2. Chron. 19 though it came of his age and travail. The children of God must so think of the means, that they see God disposing nature, & destituting them of grace, if they fail in the right use of the means. Many now adays in sickness go to the Physicians with Asa, never considering their sins, the just cause thereof. It is good to seek to the Physicians, so that God be first sought to by repentance of that sin, which we think to be the cause of the same. But when the Physician ⟨p. 796⟩cannot help them, and when they know no cause of their sickness, but are strangely stricken, and suddenly, then they are found, and say they are taken, as Moses