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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
Part 4 › MASTER GREENEHAMS PRAYER.Part 4 › MAISTER GREENEHAMS PRAYER.
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.
MASTER GREENEHAMS PRAYER.
MAISTER GREENEHAMS PRAYER.
O God most mighty, glorious and righteous: O father most loving, gracious, and merciful, which keepest covenant and mercy in Jesus Christ for all those which receiving the first fruits of thy holy spirit, walk before thee in uprightness of their heart: we thy unworthy children come unto thee in the name of thy only begotten Son Jesus Christ our Lord: beseeching thee to renew and increase thy holy spirit in us, and to purify our hearts more and more by faith, that we may have a clearer sight, and a surer persuasion of thy fatherly goodness unto us, and that we may more readily perform our dutiful obedience unto thee. For we do acknowledge and confess unto thy sacred Majesty, that we have yet never hitherto worthily esteemed thy mercies towards us, nor sufficiently expressed the fruits of our bounden duty towards thee: but that still we remain ignorant, and forgetful of many good things, which we ought, and might know. And we confess Lord, we are slack unto those things which thy holy sp••t offereth to our minds, unapt to do them, soon weary of well-doing; and wherein we please thee something, we please our selves too much. Moreover we likewise confess that we are ignorant of many evil things, that we have done, do, or may do: forgetful of divers things, which sometime we have had knowledge and remorse of. And now the things which come to our remembrance, and are in our sight, do not appear to be so•sinfull in any measure as they are, and ought of us to be regarded. Yea we are beguiled ere ever we are aware with our present corruptions, and they clean so fast unto us, that we can hardly leave them, but most hardly be brought to true repentance of them. We beseech therefore thy sacred Majesty, to work in us by thy holy spirit, a wise and careful searching out of and into our sins, that by the law we may be convinced of them, awakened by thy threatenings, rebuked for them by thy judgements, executed upon the wicked, and exercised toward thy children, servants, and friends, that so we may fear and tremble for them.