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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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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.
72 When we haue any crosse it is hard lucke say we. Well, that luck, as you call it, and1 prouidence as I iudge it, is often more worth vnto vs than all our substance. And why so? the reason seemeth simple, and yet is most forcible, for then we begin to be in necessitie. That is, as you thinke, a cold comfort, and I should hardly perswade you, that this argument is good. For, if I shall say that if ye did beleeue, 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 necessitie causeth vs to looke for a remedie, the asking of it by prayer doth assure vs to obtaine because of the promise.
- 1How profitable •he cross it.How profitable •he crosse it.
73 Herein is a difference between children and bastards, that original sin in the1 refused, hath the root as rottenness, the branch as dust, the bud as blasphemy, the fruit as despair: in the elect being overturned with the power of affliction, then ariseth in stead of it both the blossoms of rising from sin, and the sweet smelling fruit of conversion unto God.