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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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Unless therefore Satan dare contradict the spirit of God, speaking by the mouths of so many witnesses, he cannot say but you are the Lords. Now for your self, I am assured that you will not, nor dare not say, but this hath been the constant testimony of all the servants of God sent unto you; and that they were such as you had no cause to suspect their partiality or flattery in any sort. How is it then, that the voice of so many should not be unto you as the voice of God himself? Who, though he do not speak unto us now immediately from heaven, as in some times past; yet he speaketh unto us by the mouths of his servants, his Prophets. When David said in the horror of his soul, I have 1sinned against the Lord; was it (think you) a small comfort that Nathan said immediately unto him, The Lord hath pardoned thy sin? I will say nothing of the prayers of so many of the servants of Christ as have commended your cause unto the Lord, which cannot be frustrate, the Lord himself directing them to pray according to his word, and upon the assurance of his promise. Read Job 33. 23. If there be present with him (that is, with the afflicted2 soul, as verse 22.) a messenger from God, an interpreter (of the will of God) such as is one of a thousand, who may signify unto man the equity of the Lord, and entreating him for favour shall say: Redeem thou him that he go not down into the pit, by that redemption which I have found; when he hath humbly be sought the Lord, he doth graciously receive him that he may behold his face with joy, and he restoreth unto man his righteousness. In which words there are many excellent things to be noted for the comfort of those that are afflicted. The first is, that the anguished soul finding no comfort at ⟨p. 878⟩home and in her self, by reason of the strength of temptation, must seek relief abroad at the hands of those whom God hath appointed to make glad the sorrowful mind, and to give rest unto the wearied and distressed conscience. Wherein you must consider with all thankfulness, how great mercy the Lord hath showed unto you: for I do persuade my self, as before I have said, that since the time of your affliction, there hath not been almost one, that hath any special gift in that kind, who by conference, writing, or otherwise, hath not bestowed some part of his travail unto your comfort.