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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 if you have faith even as much as a grain of mustard seed,1 2&c that faith apprehendeth Christ Jesus, in whom there is all sufficiency of salvation, and in whom we are complete: so that whatsoever scruple ariseth from our selves, or is enforced3 of the enemy from any imperfection that is in us, it need not at all to dismay us, because we save not our selves, but are saved by him, Who is made unto us from God, 4wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption: that who so glorieth should glory in him. And indeed there is no surer refuge when the enemy distresseth us, than renouncing our selves to profess the only name of Christ Jesus, who dyed for our sins, and rose again for our justification. For if the enemy shall say, we have sinned: our answer is, ⟨p. 872⟩Christ hath dyed for us, yea is risen again, yea is ascended into heaven, &c. If he say, we5 want the righteousness of the Law, we must answer, Christ hath fulfilled the Law, that we6 by him might be made the righteousness of Christ: If he say, we are in nature corrupt, and7 therefore both unworthy and unfit for the kingdom of heaven; we must answer him with the words of Christ himself: For their sakes have I sanctified my self. Finally, whatsoever shall be objected against us by the enemy, our answer must be, that in Christ all8 the promises of God are Yea, and in him they are Amen. That all fullness dwelleth in him,9 and that in him we are perfected: so that we may boldly say with Saint Paul, There is no