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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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So that when we dare not present our prayers in our persons, we must present them to Christ, and Christ will present them to his Father, whereby our prayers that are unworthy1 to appear by reason of our corruption, are most worthy because of Christ his intercession; for whose sake the Lord turneth his wrath from poor sinners accused by Satan. For Christ is now our governor, not as he is God alone, for so hath he always been, but as Mediator, that is, as God and man, which he shall be, until he having delivered up the kingdom to God the Father, shall cease from his Mediatorship, and shall be all in all.
So that when wee dare not present our prayers in our persons, wee must present them to Christ, and Christ will present them to his Father, whereby our prayers that are vnworthy1 to appeare by reason of our corruption, are most worthie because of Christ his intercession; for whose sake the Lord turneth his wrath from poore sinners •ccused by Sathan. For Christ is now our gouernour, not as hee is God alone, for so hath hee alwayes beene, but as Mediator, that is, as God and man, which hee shall be, vntill hee hauing deliuered vp the kingdome to God the Father, shall cease from his Mediatorship, and shall bee all in all.
2 There is a general faith, and a particular faith, a general faith assuring us, that God is such a one as his word prescribeth, a particular faith applying things to our selves. This particular faith is either active or passive: active, when we believe, that if we keep the law we are saved; and this faith was in Adam, and is in the devils, and yet neither of them having the justifying faith. For Adam had it, when the passive or justifying faith needed not; the devils have it, who know, that if they could fulfil the law they should be saved: but they do not believe it to be fulfilled of any other for them. The passive faith, which is only of the Gospel, whereby we are stayed in the obedience of Christ imputed unto us, is the true justifying faith, and only proper to God his children. The active faith, is either of the precepts, or of the judgements of God: of the judgements of God, I say, because one may believe the precepts, and yet not believe the other. Eva at the first fall believed the commandment of God to be good, for she could confirm it with a strong reason, but she halted in believing the threatening of God, and extenuated it with a peradventure.