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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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4 As we have taken a vain delight in the vain course of this life; so we must sigh1 and pray, to be delighted spiritually in▪ spiritual things. If the blood of Christ hath washed us from the guiltiness of our sins, then the holy Ghost hath purged us from the filthiness of our sins.
4 As wee haue taken a vaine delight in the vaine course of this life; so wee must sigh1 and pray, to be delighted spiritually in▪ spirituall things. If the blood of Christ hath washed vs from the guiltinesse of our sins, then the holy Ghost hath purged vs from the filthines of our sinnes.
- 1We must delight spiritually in spiritual things.We must delight spiritually in spirituall things.
5 The reason why the graces of God are sweetest in our new birth, is, because we do after the same, fall somewhat to the flesh again, otherwise it would not be so. And regeneration (Joh 3.) is the work of the spirit only, although in respect of us it seemeth contrary between us and the world: for the world thinks the pleasures present always sweetest: so1 do not the children of God, even of their spiritual delights, nay they are contrary in another thing to themselves, for they think their present corruptions and temptations ever greatest, as in sick men, the last sickness is the sorest, but they think the present feelings of the spirit ever least, though it may be, they be as great as ever they were before: but who knoweth the cause of these things, seeing it proceedeth wholly from the spirit of God, who as the wind bloweth here and there, and in what measure it pleaseth him.