A02178:663
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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49 It is a worn controversy, whether the Gospel or the Law is to be preached. We answer both: the Law is to prepare, the Gospel is to follow after. So likewise whether1 it is better to govern by clemency or by severity. We answer by both. But if in comparison ye ask, whether the Law or the Gospel is most to be preached, the lenity or rigour of the judge most to be used, we say, consideration must be had of the persons preaching and preached to. The person preaching may be of this or that gift more inclinable to do good, this, or that way. True it is, John did no doubt sometime pipe, and Christ sometime mourn; but for the most part John did mourn and Christ did pipe, being ordained of God thereunto. The persons preached to, if they be already humbled, must have the promises; if they be in their sin and ignorance, or are fallen by security, the Law rather than the Gospel is to be urged. This holy mixture and wise order we may observe both in the Prophecies, and in the Epistles of the Apostles.
49 It is a worne controuersie, whether the Gospell or the Law is to be preached. We answere both: the Law is to prepare, the Gospell is to follow after. So likewise whether1 it is better to gouerne by clemencie or by seueritie. We answere by both. But if in comparison ye aske, whether the Law or the Gospell is most to be preached, the lenitie or rigour of the iudge most to be vsed, we say, consideration must be had of the persons preaching and preached to. The person preaching may be of this or that gift more inclinable to doe good, this, or that way. True it is, Iohn did no doubt sometime pipe, and Christ sometime mourne; but for the most part Iohn did mourne and Christ did pipe, being ordained of God thereunto. The persons preached to, if they be alreadie humbled, must haue the promises; if they be in their sinne and ignorance, or are fallen by securitie, the Law rather than the Gospell is to be vrged. This holy mixture and wise order we may obserue both in the Prophecies, and in the Epistles of the Apostles.
- 1How the law and the Gospel is to be preached.