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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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And as it hath truth and mercy, so knowledge is in it too; for it knoweth all times and seasons, When to receive, when to return, it shows it self a cunning Scholar, and it keeps such a comely course in 1all seasons, as if it had perfect knowledge, and this is another reason, why we must labour for truth. We may well be compared to a land: For though there be a soul in us of the substance of heaven, and coming into our bodies made of earth, should make them like to heaven, and so heaven should lift us up to heaven from the earth, yet our bodies, which by the soul should be more heavenly, have so weighed down heaven as it were to the earth, & pressed down the soul to things below, That we have set earth as it were above heaven in all our attempts and imaginations▪ and so our souls are become a very ground and land, for all our intent being earthly, we are justly called earth.
And as it hath truth and mercie, so knowledge is in it too; for it knoweth al times and seasons, When to receiue, when to returne, it shewes it selfe a cunning Scholler, and it keepes such a comely course in 1all seasons, as if it had perfect knowledge, and this is another reason, why wee must labour for truth. We may well be compared to a land: For though there be a soule in vs of the substance of heauen, and comming into our bodies made of earth, should make them like to heauen, and so heauen should lift vs vp to heauen from the earth, yet our bodies, which by the soule should be more heauenly, haue so weighed down heauen as it were to the earth, & pressed downe the soule to things below, That we haue set earth as it were aboue heauen in all our attempts and imaginations▪ and so our soules are become a very ground and land, for all our intent being earthly, we are iustly called earth.
- 1Men may be compared to landor earth. Note.Men may be compared to lādor earth. Note.