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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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This then serveth well for two sorts of men, which are both hypocrites. There be some men that will be are the world in hand, that the best side is inward,1 and the worst outward, as the Nicodemites, who, howsoever they do outwardly, inwardly they worship God devoutly. Others there are clean skinned, men as clean as Alabaster outwardly, but inwardly they be dissemblers, and they are contrary to the other,2 and bear the world in hand, that the best side is outward. These have the cleanness3 of the flesh, though not of the spirit: as the other think, they have the cleanness of the spirit, though not of the flesh, and these be mere dangerous dissemblers. If a man bow to Baal, one may see a spot of his knee, and yet he will have a clean spirit, he is an hypocrite. Well, we must not be half Christians, we must be good Catholics, clean throughout, clean both in the flesh, and in the spirit▪
This then serueth well for two sorts of men, which are both hypocrites. There bee some men that will be are the world in hand, that the best side is inward,1 and the worst outward, as the Nicodemites, who, howsoeuer they doe outwardly, inwardly they worship God deuoutly. Others there are cleane skinned, men as cleane as Alabaster outwardly, but inwardly they bee dissemblers, and they are contrarie to the other,2 and beare the world in hand, that the best side is outward. These haue the cleannesse3 of the flesh, though not of the spirit: as the other thinke, they haue the cleannesse of the spirit, though not of the flesh, and these be meere dangerous dissemblers. If a man bow to Baal, one may see a spot of his knee, and yet he will haue a cleane spirit, he is an hypocrite. Well, we must not be halfe Christians, wee must be good Catholikes, cleane throughout, cleane both in the flesh, and in the spirit