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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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45 There is no faith but by the word, no experience of faith but in temptation: and yet1 we must not tarry until our faith be proved by great trial, but be content to be wrought upon by smaller things. For it is the goodness of God to give them faith in greater matters, who would have faith in lesser things; and it is the wisdom of God first to give little trials, and then to give greater.
45 There is no faith but by the word, no experience of faith but in temptation: and yet1 we must not tarrie vntill our faith be proued by great triall, but be content to be wrought vpon by smaller things. For it is the goodnes of God to giue them faith in greater matters, who would haue faith in lesser things; and it is the wisedome of God first to giue little trials, and then to giue greater.
- 1An experienced faith.
46 The politic Atheists and disciples of Philosophers of our time think, that rain must come by a conjunction of Planets of necessity. We grant the Lord useth means,1 but so as he intendeth and remitteth them by his own limitation and power. Man in want sueth to the creatures, the creatures not able to supply it complain to the earth, the earth seeketh to the heavens, the heavens crave help from God as the last refuge, whereunto we fly immediately; God as the author, from whom our help cometh, heareth the heavens, the heavens answer the earth, the earth relieveth the creatures, the creatures minister unto man.
46 The politike Atheists and disciples of Philosophers of our time thinke, that raine must come by a coniunction of Planets of necessitie. We graunt the Lord vseth meanes,