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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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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 Serpent, and another thing to be hissed a• of a Serpent having lost his tongue; it is one thing to drink the cup of gall and poison to the dregs, and another to drink of a cup, the bitterness whereof is drawn out, & Balm placed in the steed of •t; it is one thing to drop a few tears, and another to sweat drops of blood; it is one thing to be grieved in measure, and another thing to be heavy unto death; it is one thing to feel the wrath of God for sin in our selves, but discharged in another; another thing to have the sin committed of another, and sustained in our selves.
95 It is one thing to haue as it were the pricke of a point of a needle, and another to haue a wound with the dint of a sword; It is one thing to bee stung with the tongue of:1 Serpent, and another thing to be hissed a• of a Serpent hauing lost his tongue; it is one thing to drinke the cup of gall and poyson to the dregges, and another to drinke of a cup, the bitte•nes whereof is drawne out, & Balme placed in the steed of •t; it is one thing to drop a fewe teares, and another to sweate drops of bloud; it is one thing to be grieued in measure, and another thing to be heauie vnto death; it is one thing to feele the wrath of God for sinne in our selues, but discharged in another; another thing to haue the sinne committed of another, and sustained in our selues.
- 1The passions of Christ in his death.