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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTY MONARCH, JAMES BY THE GRACE OF GOD KING OF Great Britain, France, and Ireland, defender of the Faith, &c.
TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTIE MONARCH, IAMES BY THE GRACE OF GOD KING OF Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, defender of the Faith, &c.
Right gracious Sovereign, I do here humbly present unto your Highness, the holy Labours of that worthy Servant of Christ Mr. RICHARD GREENHAM, painfully collected, corrected, and published for the good of Gods Church, by my late deer Husband Mr. HENRY HOLLAND, a Preacher of the Gospel in your Highness City of London. Which I am bold to offer unto your excellent Majesty, partly in respect of the Author, a man renowned for his rare piety and pains, and for his singular dexterity in comforting afflicted Consciences: partly in regard of the work it self, so well accepted and approved in the Church, that this is now the fifth time it hath ben published. But chiefly because my husband ⟨image 3⟩having a little before his death bestowed great care and pains in collecting and preparing for the press, the fourth and last part of these works (which in this edition is added to the rest) straightly and many times charged me upon his death bed to present and dedicate the whole unto your Highness, as a pledge which he desired to leave unto the world, of his most dutiful affection, and earnest desire to do your Majesty all the honour, and the Churches within your Highness dominions all the service that he could Wherefore humbly praying that your excellent Majesty would be pleased to accept the same at the hands of a poor widow, from him that is now at rest in the Lord, and hath (in part received the crown of his labours: I do earnestly beseech the God of heaven abundantly to heap all graces and blessings upon your Highness and your royal posterity in this life, and finally to set upon your heads the crown of everlasting life and glory in the world to come.