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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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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 Exod. 4. juddenly1 stricken saith, that the Lord hath met him: so the strangeness of the thing did sooner bring him to God. Therefore as the children of God are by this means sooner brought to God, as Moses and Job; so the wicked in the like cases do fly further from God, and think it lawful to go to witches, when their Physicians cannot help. Let us then both in ordinary and extraordinary means of blessings and punishments always confess, that the hand of the Lord hath wrought it, and seek to be cured of him by whom we have been wounded. And let us so look to the means, as that we first reconcile our selves to God for our sins, and pacify him, in that he may bless, and not curse the means of Physic.
12 Asa was reprooued, because he sought not the Lord when he was sicke of the gowte, which was a punishment of his vnlawfull couenant, 2. Chron. 19 though it came of his age and trauaile. The children of God must so thinke of the meanes, that they see God disposing nature, & destituting them of grace, if they faile in the right vse of the meanes. Many now adaies in sicknesse goe to the Physitions with Asa, neuer considering their sins, the iust cause therof. It is good to seeke to the Physitions, so that God be first sought to by repentance of that sinne, which we thinke to be the cause of the same. But when the Physition