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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. LXVII. Of Regeneration, and Sanctification.
IT is a greater miracle that a man should become a new creature, than a man should be cured of never so strange a disease. Hereunto agree the Prophets, as Isaiah 11. where it is showed, that men as savage as wild beasts shall change their nature, and become tame, so that the Prophet1 counteth this a miracle: yea, if we our selves saw the wild beasts tamed, we would count it a miracle. The Fathers think that the regenerating of a man is more miraculous, than to turn water into wine: for the wine is of the grape, the grape is of the tree, the tree is nourished by the water, so that wine after a sort doth come of water: so that the one is more common: the other is to bring out one contrary out of another, & a thing of that which have no cause going before, and he that marvelleth not at the conversion of men, he hath not tasted of the gift of regeneration, and new birth.
IT is a greater miracle that a man should become a new creature, than a man should be cured of neuer so strange a disease. Hereunto agree the Prophets, as Esay 11. where it is shewed, that men as sauage as wilde beasts shall change their nature, and become tame, so that the Prophet1 counteth this a miracle: yea, if wee our selues saw the wilde beasts tamed, we would count it a miracle. The Fathers thinke that the regenerating of a man is more miraculous, than to turne water into wine: for the wine is of the grape, the grape is of the tree, the tree is nourished by the water, so that wine after a sort doth come of water: so that the one is more common: the other is to bring out one contrary out of another, & a thing of that which haue no cause going before, and he that marueileth not at the conuersion of men, he hath not tasted of the gift of regeneration, and new birth.
- 1Regeneration how wonderful.