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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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86 There is a self-will that breeds self-love, and a self-love that brings a self-will,1 and self-will bewrays pride, which is a monster of divers heads. Some are proud in arrogating that to themselves which they have not: some have the things they boast of, but they think they proceed of themselves: some think their gifts proceed from God, but by their own deserts: some acknowledge Gods gifts to be free and undeserved, but2 they are proud of them.
86 There is a selfe-will that breeds selfe-loue, and a selfe-loue that brings a selfe-will,1 and selfe-will bewrayes pride, which is a monster of diuers heads. Some are proud in arrogating that to themselues which they haue not: some haue the things they boast of, but they thinke they proceed of themselues: some thinke their gifts proceed from God, but by their owne deserts: some acknowledge Gods gifts to be free and vndeserued, but2 they are proud of them.
- 1Self-love & self-will.Selfe-loue & selfe-will.
- 2Pride.
87 It is strange that we should not abide to be threatened, and yet can be content to be1 afflicted, when as naturally we rather desire the less evil; or we would lever be admonished of an evil, then punished with an evil. Now a threatening forewarns, but plagueth not, an affliction punisheth rather than forewarneth. Howbeit this bewrays the great pride of mans heart, in that he had rather be pressed under the hand of God, than reproved of a man.