A02178:688
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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74 There is nothing so good, but privy pride will corrupt it, nothing so evil, but a lye will cover it. For privy pride cast the Angels from heaven, exiled Adam out of Paradise,1 overthrew the deerest of God his children, when they were most full of the spirit, and was ⟨p. 64⟩the last but most fiery temptation, wherewith our Saviour Christ was assaulted. It is seen2 of others, before it is espied of our selves, it cometh with greatest graces of God, whereas other sins come with sin, it was the first sin in God his child, and it will be last. For even when all sins seem to bleed, and all graces seem to stand, herein we can be proud, that sin is so dead, and godliness so abundant in us.
74 There is nothing so good, but priuie pride will corrupt it, nothing so euill, but a lye will couer it. For priuie pride cast the Angels from heauen, exiled Adam out of Paradise,1 ouerthrew the deerest of God his children, when they were most full of the spirit, and was ⟨p. 64⟩the last but most fierie temptation, wherewith our Sauiour Christ was assaulted. It is seene2 of others, before it is espied of our selues, it commeth with greatest graces of God, whereas other sinnes come with sinne, it was the first sinne in God his childe, and it will be last. For euen when all sinnes seeme to bleede, and all graces seeme to stand, herein we can be proude, that sinne is so dead, and godlinesse so abundant in vs.
- 1Privy pride.Priuie pride.
- 2Matth 4.