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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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yea, if he bring it in harder and more dark speeches, than the word of God is, or if he deliver it more strangely or obscurely, and yet will bear us in hand, and make us believe that he hath clearer revelations, we may then justly suspect him of untruth, and utterly refuse him, further than by certain grounds & reasons out of Gods word, he doth confirm his Doctrine. And as we may rightly hold all the doctrines of men accursed, when they speak or write any thing contrary to the wholesome word of truth, or else do add anything thereto. So likewise if any shall take away from the word of God one jot or tittle: we may in the fear of God, and in the zeal of his truth pronounce against him that sentence, wherewith God in great wisdom hath closed up his holy Scriptures: The Lord will take his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and out of those things which are written in this book.
yea, if he bring it in harder and more darke speeches, than the word of God is, or if hee deliuer it more strangely or obscurely, and yet wil beare vs in hand, and make vs beleeue that he hath cleerer reuelations, we may then iustly suspect him of vntruth, and vtterly refuse him, further than by certaine grounds & reasons out of Gods word, he doth confirme his Doctrine. And as we may rightly hold all the doctrines of men accursed, when they speake or write any thing contrary to the holesome word of truth, or else doe adde anything thereto. So likewise if any shall take away from the word of God one iot or tittle: we may in the feare of God, and in the zeale of his truth pronounce against him that sentence, wherewith God in great wisedome hath closed vp his holy Scriptures: The Lord will take his part out of the booke of life, and out of the holy citie, and out of those things which are written in this booke.
2 John saith, the Spirit bloweth where it listeth, so also as much as it listeth, sometime1 breathing softly like the cool air, and sometime like the whirl-wind: for man is full of wandering thoughts, and imaginations, especially when he heareth the word: but nothing is more dangerous than the young mans heart, which is in all places of the world at once, if you speak not what he thinketh, he doth not attend, if he be not astonished: and for this cause doth the holy Ghost often offer galling concessions, and pinching permissions, as