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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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71 Company is the best thing and worst thing in the world▪ how much and how […] 1are men beholding to it? it maketh and marreth whatsoever cometh near it […] as worms do easily breed in the softest wood, so doth it commonly spoil the best •••• sition.
71 Companie is the best thing and worst thing in the world▪ how much and how 〈…〉 1are men beholding to it? it maketh and marreth whatsoeuer commeth neere it 〈…〉 as wormes do easily breede in the softest wood, so doth it commonly spoyle the best •••• sition.
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72 When we have any cross it is hard luck say we. Well, that luck, as you call it, and1 providence as I judge it, is often more worth unto us than all our substance. And why so? the reason seemeth simple, and yet is most forcible, for then we begin to be in necessity. That is, as you think, a cold comfort, and I should hardly persuade you, that this argument is good. For, if I shall say that if ye did believe, ye should see this, as sure as your life, I know, that you would smile at it. Notwithstanding it is sure that the sense of our necessity causeth us to look for a remedy, the asking of it by prayer doth assure us to obtain because of the promise.