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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
When men are neither profitable for the land, nor good for the dunghill they must he cast out. This casting out hath a necessary use in the body natural, as where nature cannot do it of her self, there she doth it1 by art; in the body civill as by exile; in the body ecclesiastical, as by excommunication; in the body economical, by suspension or expulsion. God cast out Adam from paradise, the Angels from heaven, Abraham cast out the bondmaid with her son, Moses separated the leprous persons from the clean; CHRIST cast out buyers and sellers out of the Temple.
WHen men are neither profitable for the land, nor good for the dunghill they must he cast out. This casting out hath a necessary vse in the bodie naturall, as where nature cannot doe it of her selfe, there she doth it1 by art; in the body ciuill as by exile; in the body ecclesiasticall, as by excōmunication; in the body oeconomicall, by suspension or expulsion. God cast out Adam from paradise, the Angels from heauen, Abraham cast out the bondmaide with her sonne, Moses separated the leprous persons from the cleane; CHRIST cast out buyers and sellers out of the Temple.
- 1Excommunication.
2 The rulers of the Church are called the Church, to whom Discipline appertaineth, even as Mark. 3. not the whole company of the Jews, but the rulers of the Synagogue are called the Church of the Jews. Therefore as we call the Court of Parliament the Realm gathered together, although it be but an Epitome to sit, and compromise of things: so these few being a Compendium of the Church, have all things committed unto them. And God himself in the Parable doth not bewray this, but doth in wisdom conceal it: saying, They will without peradventure reverence my Son: So without controversy, one would think they would hear the Church. But as the Jews made a way with him that was the heir, so we say now adays with the Edomites,