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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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58 Merchants of one company, and partners are partakers alike of all their profits1 and damages, which grow of their merchandise: The man and wife joined both in marriage, are both one flesh, and participate in well and woe one with another; Christ Jesus by reason of that society, which we have together with him, giveth us a part, and we likewise him, of all that we have and possess. And as a Prince marrying a meaner woman, endoweth her with all his treasure, & is content with her rags, purposing now to invest her with his robes; So the Lord Jesus, espousing us most unworthy to him, is content to take the rags of our unrighteousness, to endow us with the treasures of his holiness, and to invest us with the robes of his righteousness. Indeed some difference is between the Merchants and us; for both the gain and the use of traffic is equal among them: but between Christ and us, the gain of his glory is ours, deserved and purchased by his obedience: and the loss of our deserved death is his, and charged wholly upon him, though our disobedience hath purchased it.
58 Merchants of one companie, and partners are partakers alike of all their profites1 and damages, which grow of their merchandise: The man and wife ioyned both in marriage, are both one flesh, and participate in well and woe one with another; Christ Iesus by reason of that societie, which we haue together with him, giueth vs a part, and we likewise him, of all that we haue and possesse. And as a Prince marrying a meaner woman, indoweth her with all his treasure, & is contēt with her ragges, purposing now to inuest her with his robes; So the Lord Iesus, espousing vs most vnworthie to him, is content to take the ragges of our vnrighteousnes, to endow vs with the treasures of his holines, and to inuest vs with the robes of his righteousnes. Indeed some difference is betweene the Merchants and vs; for both the gaine and the vse of trafficke is equall among them: but betweene Christ and vs, the gaine of his glorie is ours, deserued and purchased by his obedience: and the losse of our deserued death is his, and charged wholly vpon him, though our disobedience hath purchased it.
- 1Of our happy communion with Christ, & how thereby we have an assurance of all his insearchable riches.