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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.
And indeed this is such a kind of defiling, as comes by a mans own sweat, or by our own blood, being polluted in it self, as the babe which God passed by, Ezech. 16. 4. 5. From these kinds of filthiness we must be cleansed. And yet there is another manner of cleansing, and that is put down for us, Levit. 13. 48. where it is spoken of a warp or woof which had been defiled with the plague of leprosy, that shall be washed. And yet although the Priest see it be clean, it shall not be clean, until it be washed the second time, vers▪ 55. We must proceed from cleansing with soap to cleanse with Fullers earth, and with Nitre. Now, how this cleansing must be, the Lord Jesus showeth, Joh. 15 3. 4. Now are ye clean through the word which I have spoken unto you: but the spirit worketh by the word. In Baptism we are cleansed, it is not the water that cleanseth us, but the spirit which is as a fire: how be it this fire hath oil to minister matter to it, which is the word. This word is that, which quickeneth and inflameth us: and this is not only holy in it self, but it maketh us holy also,1 if we believe it.
And indeede this is such a kinde of defiling, as comes by a mans owne sweate, or by our owne blood, being polluted in it selfe, as the babe which God passed by, Ezech. 16. 4. 5. From these kindes of filthinesse we must be cleansed. And yet there is another manner of cleansing, and that is put downe for vs, Leuit. 13. 48. where it is spoken of a warfe or woofe which had beene defiled with the plague of leprosie, that shall be washed. And yet although the Priest see it be cleane, it shall not be cleane, vntill it be washed the second time, vers▪ 55. We must proceed from cleansing with sope to cleanse with Fullers earth, and with Nitr•. Now, how this cleansing must be, the Lord Iesus sheweth,