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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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2 It is a most certain thing in Gods children, that the more their afflictions grow, the more their faith groweth: the more Satan striveth to draw them from God, the more they draw near to God: although indeed in feeling they cannot see so much.1
2 It is a most certaine thing in Gods children, that the more their afflictions grow, the more their faith groweth: the more Sathan striueth to draw them from God, the more they draw neer to God: although indeed in feeling they cānot see somuch.1
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3 Many can speak fair things in the ears of God, so long as they be in affliction: but afterwards they will speak evil things in the ears of heaven and earth.
3 Many can speak faire things in the eares of God, so long as they be in affliction: but afterwards they will speake euill things in the eares of heauen and earth.
4 He said to one complaining of sudden gripes and nips in the body, Of sudden •eares1 in the mind, that we should make our use of them: and though it were hard to search the particular cause of them, it was both easy and sure to attribute it to our failing in religion, in not doing some good which God required at our hands: or if we did it, because we were too ceremonial, and rested in the thing wrought. If we have failed in not doing, it may be the Lord calleth us to some thing to be done. Again, by these sudden fears and griefs, the Lord will sometime prepare a way to come unto us, not much unlike to a Prince, who before his coming hath a peal of guns as a warning piece, and then we are to meet the Lord with prayer: for now is the time, now is the fit opportunity of praying, because the Lord will shortly pass by us, and therefore we must stir up our selves. And having prayed it is good to make an holy pursuit after him, as laying a godly claim to the promises of God, not in particular, but in general: for who knoweth, but the Lord, what is good in particular for our salvation. Here he showed by his own example, to commend the use of prayer, how he being once feared with deceivable and grievous visions, called to mind (being alone in the dark night) the unbelief of the Disciples on the Seas, where our Saviour Christ was asleep: then he asked his own soul whether he had prayed or no; or whether in prayer, he made not some haste out of it, as being desirous to