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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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29 There is no striving in sin, but in God his judgement and wrath, and therefore1 it is usual with the Lord to check sin sooner in his own children than in the wicked, and to rebuke it sorer in his children regenerate, than in them that are not renewed, and to withstand more severely sin in his children renewed and having more plentiful means, than in the regenerate not having so great a measure of the means.
29 There is no striuing in sinne, but in God his iudgement and wrath, and therefore1 it is vsuall with the Lord to checke sinne sooner in his owne children than in the wicked, and to rebuke it sorer in his children regenerate, than in them that are not renewed, and to withstand more seuerely sin in his children renewed and hauing more plentifull meanes, than in the regenerate not hauing so great a measure of the meanes.
- 1No thriving in sin.No thriuing in sinne.
30 We must labour to have the fear of God before our eyes always. Believe we cannot1 always, rejoice in God we cannot always, faith is often faint, love is little, joy is dead, feeling is fallen asleep; yet if we continue in the fear of God, fearing our selves for the absence of these things, it will be a mean to recover them all again. For this jealousy of our selves, least we should displease God, will drive us to such an examination of our own hearts, as we seeing these wants, we are constrained to mourn, until the graces of God shine to us again: but if this fear be once gone, yea though we had those other gifts, yet will they decay, and we shall fall into so deep a peace with our sins, that though we slip very grossly, we will never suspect our selves for any thing.