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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. LXXI. Of truth and errors, sincerity and contempt of the word.
CHAP. LXXI. Of truth and errors, sinceritie and contempt of the word.
There is no profit in teaching or hearing without application. Ephes. 6.1 Paul speaking of the trueth, calleth it a girdle of truth, it must not be a loose truth, out of which a man may easily be shaken, it must be a tied truth, not a ranging truth, if it be loose about us, it will fall away with the least flaw of wind Rom. 15. The Apostle speaketh of this putting on of Christ, we must not make a broad cloth of him, to make him apparel to warm us at the hour of death, or in some time of trouble, but we must presently make him a garment, that it may sit as close to us as our coats. James saith in his first chapter, that the word must be ingrafted in us, it must not hang by us: but as there is no true grafting without the renting of the old stock, that the new graft may he fastened and closed up in the rent: so there is no true receiving of the word, until our corrupt wisdom be rent asunder and the word of God closed up in stead of it: So that as there is truth required, so a girdle of truth: As Christ is our comfort, so he must be put on: As the word is received, so it must be ingrafted in us. In more sensible things we are familiarly acquainted with this matter. What profit is there in a plaster, be it never so skilfully made, unless it be applied? Well, nothing indeed is good without applying. The