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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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7 There is no man of judgement, that though in other places he thinks many things lawful, or at the least indifferent in their own nature to be done, yet he will not do them in the temple. So consequently, if we be Gods temple (as every Christian ought to be1 wheresoever he goes) we must be cleansed. Again, for that the Lord hath made us priests, and we must carry the vessels of the Lord, therefore we must be clean, Revel. 1. for priests were to cleanse others, and therefore good reason it was they should be clean▪ and we, if we will be cleansers of others, necessarily we must be clean our selves. Yet there is a third argument, Jere. 31. 1. which is most effectual, and that is, because our heavenly father is holy. And if this move us not, we are rather as servants holy, for fear of the whip, or we are mercenaries, we will cleanse our selves for hope of reward. God our father is clean, therefore we his children must be also clean. God is of pure eyes, and no defiled thing must enter into the new Jerusalem: wherefore we must cleanse our selves, because we be the Lords Temple, because we be priests, because our father is clean and holy. A thing is filthy in the2 Law, either by touching another thing that is unclean, or which hath unclean issue in it self, so that there are these kinds of pollutions: the first, if we touch an unclean thing: a thing unclean of it self, as a leper: and thus, if we touch sin, or the devil, or any limb of the devil, which be things unclean, we shall be also unclean. The cause is, pitch will defile a man. There is a second kind, which is this: we know that water, for as much as it is a baser substance than the wine, though in it self it be no mere unclean thing, corrupteth3 the wine being mixed with it: In like sort, the creatures the things of this world, though4 they be not wholly unclean of themselves, yet because they be things of baser condition than our souls are, if our hearts be set on them, they pollute us. There is a third kind, and