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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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94 Although we are not to accept persons, yet we may make difference of persons, because1 some are more capable of good things than others. In which respect our Saviour Christ took some of his Disciples with him to pray, and yet but two, ••d those of choice: showing and teaching us thereby, that as we must avoid popularity, to seek our own▪ glory, so we must not hinder God his glory, nor cease to do pure things before others, who for their faithfulness have upright harts, and for their wisdom can discern of things to be well instructed thereby.
94 Although we are not to accept persons, yet we may make difference of persons, because1 some are more capable of good things than others. In which respect our Sauiour Christ tooke some of his Disciples with him to pray, and yet but two, ••d those of choise: shewing and teaching vs thereby, that as wee must auoide popularitie, to seeke our owne▪ glorie, so we must not hinder God his glorie, nor cease to doe pure things before others, who for their faithfulnes haue vpright harts, and for their wisdome can discerne of things to be well iustructed thereby.
- 1How to put difference between persons.How to put difference betweene persons.
95 It is one thing to have as it were the prick of a point of a needle, and another to have a wound with the dint of a sword; It is one thing to be stung with the tongue of:1