A02178:766
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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149 If you slip back from the Gospel the stranger sort will be offended, either by noting in you singularity, or by suspecting you for inhumanity: But O cursed corruptions of our sinful nature! if we give liberty, they will grant licentiousness; if we afford consolation, they will set on presumption; if we call for humiliation, they cry to desperation.
149 If you slip backe from the Gospell the stranger sort will be offended, either by noting in you singularitie, or by suspecting you for inhumanitie: But O cursed corruptions of our sinfull nature! if we giue libertie, they will grant licentiousnes; if we affoord consolation, they will set on presumption; if we call for humiliation, they crie to desperation.
150 Look often upon Christ when you are alone, be careful to please him; for carefulness and cheerfulness may meet together in a sanctified mind.