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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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much more when Satan works withal buffeting1 you, assure your self that God hath pity on you, that the virtue of his power shall be perfect in your weakness. If you believe, according to your faith it shall be done unto you. But you will say, you cannot believe that this vile & crocked hardness of your heart can be ⟨p. 868⟩remitted and renewed: and even this was the second point which in the former part of my letter I gave you to understand was the cause of your excessive distress. I beseech you, & I charge you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you will not willingly lie nor offer injury to Gods spirit, or to your self who hath received it. Tell me, what is the reason why you think you have no faith? Verily because you have no feeling, nor any other fruits thereof, as you think. Well, first then agree with me herein (as you must, if you will not disagree with the truth) that feeling is but an effect and fruit of faith; and therefore there may be faith without feeling, as well as the cause may be without the effect, and the2 tree without any appearance of fruit, yea of sap for a season. And as a man sore wounded and diseased may for a season be deprived almost of all operations of the natural life to the outward show, and to his own judgement and feeling: so may a spiritual man be sore wounded by Satan, and diseased by the present feeling of his sinful corruptions, specially in temptations; that he may think, yea appear to others, that the life of the spirit is not in him. Thus Peters faith did not wholly fail (as you have heard) or else the prayer of our Saviour prevailed not. Thus when David declared that his heart was unclean, or his3 spirit crooked or unstable, and that he had lost the joy of his salvation, and the spirit of liberty or adoption, yet he prayeth, that God would not take his holy spirit from him: therefore he was not deprived of the spirit of sanctification.
much more when Sathan workes withall buffetting1 you, assure your selfe that God hath pitie on you, that the vertue of his power shall be perfect in your weakenes. If you beleeue, according to your faith it shal be done vnto you. But you will say, you cannot beleeue that this vile & crocked hardnes of your heart can be