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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. LXXIIII. Of good Works, and our obedience to his word.
CHAP. LXXIIII. Of good Workes, and our obedience to his word.
IT is written, Exod. 10 5. 6. Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded them, and so did they. And the Apostle Paul saith, that of our selves we can do nothing. Yet through the Lord Jesus we are able to do all things. Upon such like places the Papists gather that the commandments may be kept. I answer, that those words concerning Moses and Aaron are to1 be referred to that particular action of bringing the people out of Egypt: for both before, and after we see many infirmities in them, yea with what temporal punishments are they punished, that they cannot enter into the promised land. That also that was said of Noah, is to be referred to the making of the Ark, Gen. 6. 22. So when David prayeth to be heard according to his righteousness, it is in respect of that cause which he had in hand, for the which his enemies did persecute him. Again, the children of God from time to time have fallen into great sins; as Noah, Abraham, Lot, and David, whose examples we ought to lay up in our hearts, to keep us from despair, when we feel infirmities in us.
IT is written, Exod. 10 5. 6. Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded them, and so did they. And the Apostle Paul saith, that of our selues we can doe nothing. Yet through the Lord Iesus we are able to doe all things. Vpon such like places the Papists gather that the commandements may be kept. I answere, that those words concerning Moses and Aaron are to1 be referred to that particular action of bringing the people out of Aegypt: for both before, and after we see many infirmities in them, yea with what temporall punishments are they punished, that they cannot enter into the promised land. That also that was saide of Noah, is to be referred to the making of the Arke,