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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 so far forth1 as I shall be at any time instructed in your particular estate in some letters sent from you by convenient messengers. That which I perceive presently by M. S. Letter is, that you are afflicted with the blindness of your mind, and hardness of your heart, which cannot be moved either with the promises of Gods mercies, or fear of his judgements; nor affected with the love and delight of the things which be good, nor with the hatred and loathing of the evil. Great cause you have of grief I confess; but no cause of despair dare I grant: because I am persuaded that your persuasion is somewhat false; partly for want of a sound judgement of your estate, and partly for some defect of faith, somewhat ⟨p. 866⟩through your own default▪ First, therefore know you for a certainty that this is no other tentation than such as divers of Gods children have been humbled with, and afterward have had a good issue out of it: and if it please God to move you to credit me, I my self have known others, as deeply this way plunged as you can be. Remember therefore,2 that God is faithful, and will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you shall be able to bear. And yet further to confirm you herein, the holy Scriptures do record, that this way God heretofore hath humbled his own people: in whose person the Prophet Isaiah lamentably complaineth: O Lord, look down from heaven, behold from the dwelling place 3of thy holiness, and of the glory. Where is thy zeal and thy strength, the multitude of thy mercies, and of thy compassions? They are restrained from me. And afterwards: O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our hearts from thy fear? And in the next Chapter, verse 6. We have been all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness is as filthy clouts: and we all do fade as a leaf, and our iniquities as the wind do take us away: and there is none that calleth upon thy name, neither that stirreth up himself to take hold on thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. And before: We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as one without eyes, we roar like Bears, and mourn