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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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99 It is worthy to be marked that Paul saith, fly Fornication: and Jame• saith, resist the 1devil: for Fornication must not be stood long withal, but to put our safety out of question, let us flee all occasions of it: and contrariwise Satan must not be fled from, (for that will embolden him) but he must be resisted by the word, and by prayer, and the power of Christ.
99 It is worthie to be marked that Paul saith, flie Fornication: and Iame• saith, resist the 1diuell: for Fornication must not be stood long withall, but to put our safetie out of question, let vs flee all occasions of it: and contrariwise Sathan must not be fled from, (for that will embolden him) but he must be resisted by the word, and by prayer, and the power of Christ.
- 1Wherefore the Lord bids us flee Fornication, but resist the devil.Wherefore the Lord bids vs flee Fornication, but re sist the diuell.
100 It is a marvellous thing, that a young man should be so zealous in youth, and about1 40 or 50 years should be honest and hold his own, but have no such vigour as before: But we must know that even his heat is mixed much with heat of youth, which shooteth and thrusteth out a little with a great heat and outward show in the beginning, and that afterward the strength of godliness being sounder, a man shall be less vehement but far more solid, at what time his pure zeal being naked in it self, for that his young heat forsakes him, seemeth happily to be less, but sure it is more sound and substantial than it was before.