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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 remembering on the other hand, when nothing will do them good, but the matter is at this point, that we must either cleave to God and forsake them, or forsake God and cleave to them; that nature and civility in the second table are to give place to religion, and piety in the first table.
and remembring on the other hand, when nothing will do them good, but the matter is at this point, that we must either cleaue to God and forsake them, or forsake God and cleaue to them; that nature and ciuilitie in the second table are to giue place to religion, and pietie in the first table.
5 The fifth rule is, that we must not be stricter to our selves, than to any other, and be1 more liberal in some things to others, than to our selves. This will first cause us to cast the first stone at our selves, this will teach us to pull first the beam out of our own eyes, and then the mote out of another's eye, this will make such an experience of sin in our selves, that we shall neither flatter too foolishly men in their sins, nor rebuke too rigorously men for their sin. Some we shall see justly misliking a ceremony, refuse it in themselves, yet for that it is a thing indifferent, they can tolerate it in others: others there be, who being unwilling to use it themselves, judge strictly all others as heinous offenders that use it. Moses refused to take so much as a shoo-latchet himself from the Egyptians, and yet to others that would take, he would not deny the law of arms; so strait he was to himself, so liberal he was to others. Paul seeing that in some places he could not so conveniently live of other mens charges, as at Corinth & Thessalonica, although at Colossos he2 received somewhat, where they were able to bestow on him, yet he would not that all men should be tied to this example to do the like: for he laboureth much in all his Epistles almost about this, to show how Ministers ought sufficiently to be provided for, so strict he was to himself, such liberality he left to others,