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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
7 Satan will tempt us, though he cannot overcome us.
7 Sathan will tempt vs, though hee cannot ouercome vs.
8 As GOD and his Angels are about us, so is the Devil and his Angels: and as the good Angels have not been seen, but extraordinarily: so are the evil Angels, and he that depriveth himself of this meditation weakeneth his Faith. For it is to our comfort, that1 though we be in danger, and no man by us, yet GOD and his Angels are with us to keep v• ▪ And this meditation ought also to humble us, that though in evil doing no man can see and hurt us, yet the Devil, and evil spirits still hover over us. Again, we must know, that as the Angels have appeared to good men for special defence: so the soul spirits may appear to some men for special sins: which evil spirits are not the souls of an•e departed, as in the blind papacy it was imagined, but the evil spirits in the Air, as the Apostle speaketh, Ephes. 6. 12. which are there truly called the Princes of the darkness of this world, because they do as Lords, command, and sway in the blind souls of men, Ephes. 2. 1. 2. John. 1. 4. 5.
8 As GOD and his Angels are about vs, so is the Diuell and his Angels: and as the good Angels haue not bene seene, but extraordinarily: so are the euill Angels, and he that depriueth himselfe of this meditation weakeneth his Faith. For it is to our comfort, that1