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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.
CHAP. XXII. Of Temptation.
OF all punishments this is the sorest, to be suffered to walk as we list. Ps 78. the people would needs have Quails: Almighty God saith, Let them have Quails: but he destroyed them even when the meat was in their ••outhes, for with their morsels they swallowed wrath. Oh, saith the Lord, that the people would walk in my way, and Israel obey me: but because •hey would not, God gave them over to their hearts lust. Rom. 1. 24. Idolatry the greatest sin that can be, God punished with this: whereby we see how heavy a sin it is in God his sight, how light soever we make of it, to be given over to our own hearts lust. In the book of Numbers there is mention made of a place where the children of Israel were plagued, called the graves of lust, whereof a learned Father saith: In these days there are many graves of lust, for his body that lives in pleasure is a grave of lust. And this is that which I desire we may see, that we might once have a feeling of thorns in pleasure, and that God punish us not by suffering us still to go on. I read in the Scriptures of delivering a man to Satan, and of delivering a man to himself: the first there may follow salvation, as we see to the man in the Epistle to the Corinthians: but if we fall into the second, it is dangerous. For it were better to be delivered over to the devil, than to his own lust: for thither it will bring him, and that so, as he shall not see it nor respect it.
OF all punishments this is the sorest, to be suffered to walke as we list. Ps 78. the people would needes haue Quailes: Almightie God saith, Let them haue Quailes: but he destroyed them euen when the meate was in their ••outhes, for with their morsels they swallowed wrath. Oh, saith the Lord, that the people would walke in my way, and Israel obey me: but because hey would not, God gaue them ouer to their hearts lust.