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A02178	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.; Works	Greenham, Richard.; Holland, Henry, 1555 or 6-1603.; Hill, Robert, d. 1623.	1612 (1612)	STC 12318; ESTC S120843	1,539,296	988

perswasion of the mercies of God merited by our Lord Iesus Christ. How shall wee attaine to this true Faith By the spirit of God giuing vs this true perswasion by the Gospell Where is the Gospell declared vnto vs It is generally declared vnto vs in the holy Scriptures but the Church of God hath gathered out of them a certaine summe thereof Which is that The Articles of our Christian faith commonly called the Creede Rehearse the Articles of our Christian faith I belieue in God the Father Almightie maker of heauen and earth c. Into how many p●●●t● are these Articles diuided Into two The first is of Faith in God The second is of Faith concerning the Church What are you taught to beleeue in the first part In the first part I declare that I beleeue in God the Father Sonne H. Ghost Why say you I belieue in God and not in Gods Because there is but one onely true God vpon whome my Faith is wholly stayed Seeing there is but one God why name you three the Father Sonne Holy-Ghost Because that God hath so manifested himselfe in his word that these sundry persons are but one true and euerlasting God Why say you I belieue in God and not rather that there is a God By saying I belieue in GOD I declare that I put my whole trust and affiance in God whereas the Diuels and wicked men belieuing that there is a God yet cannot put their whole trust and confidence in God Why say you I belieue and not Wee belieue Because I must be saued by mine owne faith and not by the faith of another Why call you God FATHER Because hee is the Creator of heauen and earth and so is the Father of all creatures Why call you God Creator of heauen and earth and not Maker of heauen and earth Because hee created all things of nothing for to Create is to make a thing of nothing but to make is to make a thing of that which was something before Why call you him Almighti● Because as hee created all things of nothing so doth hee preserue and guide them by his Almightie power wisedome Iustice and mercie What comfort doth this article 〈◊〉 It ministreth vnto me ●oure notable comforts 1. First that all the good Angels of God shall watch ouer me pitch their tents about me 2. Secondly that neither the diuell nor men shall haue any power to hurt mee but when and as farre forth as God doth giue them leaue 3. Thirdly that I shall haue a profitable and conuenient vse of all Gods creatures 4. Fourthlie though I suffer hu●t by Sathan or want of the creatures yet all this shall turne to my good in the ende How can this bee Because God can doe it as an Almighty God and will doe it as a most mercifull and l●●●ing Father True it is that by Creation wee had this benefite but wee haue ●●st it are bec●me the children of wrath how then can God become our Father and shew his merci vn● vs He is become our Father by Faith in Iesus Christ the Sonne of God What beleeue you of God the Son●e 1. First I beleeue that hee is able to worke my saluation 2. Secondlie I beleeue that hee hath wrought it indeed after that manner that is set downe in the Creede How can you beleeue that hee is able to worke your saluation I doe belieue it because hee is both God and man and hath an office from God the Father to worke my Saluation By what words in the Creede doe you belieue Christ to be God By these words His onely Sonne I declare that I belieue in Christ the onely begotten Sonne of God begotten of his Father before all worlds God of God Light of Light verie God of very God begotten not made beeing of one substance with the Father by whome all things were made Why call you him the onely begotten Sonne of God Because hee is the alone Sonne of God by nature How can this bee seeing Adam the Angles and we also be the sonnes of God Ad●m was the Sonne of God by Creation which wee haue lost but yet wee be the sonnes of God by regeneration Why was it r●qui●●te that he should be God Because nothing but God was able to abide and ouercome the wrath of God and the punishment due vnto sinne What comfort haue you by this that Christ is God Hereby I am sure that hee is able to saue me by reconciling mee to the Father that he may make me the childe of God By what words in the Creede doe you shewe that you belieue Christ to be man By these words Borne of the Virgine Marie I doe shewe that Christ is borne of the Virgin Marie as others bee and subiect to all infirmities of man sinne onely excepted Why are these words added Conceiued by the holie Ghost To shewe that Christ by the holie Ghost was conceiued in the wombe of Marie shee continuing still a pure Virgine and that hee was borne holie and without sinne whereunto all other men by nature are subject Was it n●edfull that Christ should be without sinne Yea for otherwise the Godhead and Manhood could not be ioyned together and againe if hee had been a sinner he could not haue satisfied for the sinnes of other men Why was it requisite that Christ should be Man Because the righteousnesse of God requireth that the same Nature which had sinned should also pay and make amends for sinnes What comfort haue you by this that Christ is man Hereby I am assured that Christ is fit to suffer the punishment of my sinne and being man himselfe is also meete to bee more pitifull and mercifull vnto men What fruite haue you by his holie Conception I am assured that this holy Conception hath couered the corruption of my nature and that his pure Conception shall be imputed vnto me What comfort haue you by this that hee is both God and man By this I am most certainly assured that he is able most fully to finish my saluation seeing that as he is man he is meete to suffer for sinne as he is God he is able to beare the punishment for sinne and to ouercome in suffering and therefore hee is called IESVS What doth IESVS signifie It doth signifie a Sauiour W●y doe you c●ll him IESVS I doe call him IESVS that is a Sauiour because he saueth me from all my sinnes and because there is none other meanes whereby I may in part or in whole bee deliuered from them What comfort haue you by this My comfort is euen the same which I haue said and the rather because GOD from heauen gaue him his name and the Church on earth hath subscribed therevnto What signifieth CHRIST It signifieth Annointed W●y is hee so called Because he was annointed to be a Prophet for all his people and so for mee Priest for all his people and so for mee King for all his

and no condemnation to them that beleeue in Christ and teacheth that we must be crucified to the world and become new creatures though he doth not all other things perfitly and absolutely yet keeping this foundation hee shall finde mercie But if a man destroy the Temple of God that is labour more about the establishing of ceremonies and maintaining of errours than hee doth to maintaine and establish the power of the Gospell the Lord will surely destroy him As then we dare not say that a man purely preaching Christ crucified though he faile in some smaller points of discipline shall be damned so we affirme that a man maintaining corruptions and nothing labouring to preach the crosse of Christ and neglecting the doctrine of being crucified to the world and of becomming a new creature is to feare least that if hee repent not the Lord destroy him For if they destroy the Temple of God that is the people of God by not teaching the truth and by keeping out from entring into the truth not only themselues but others the Lord will vndoubtedly destroy such This place maketh much also for our comfort against heresie and poperie because as God promiseth peace and mercie to them that preach and embrace the doctrine of our saluation by Christ so hee threatneth on the contrarie his curse and vengeance both to the preachers and followers of the contrarie doctrine howsoeuer they hope for a day or cōtemne the flocke of Christ. For the same God that made the Israelites a valiant people in pursuing their enemies so long as they continued in the rule he had appointed them brought them low and made them flie before their enemies when they forsooke this rule so as one chased tenne of them and tenne put to flight an hundred of them Let vs boldly then both preach and receiue this doctrine of Christ and not feare any corrupt Teachers whatsoeuer seeing their supposed felicitie shall be accursed and our supposed miserie shall be blessed Which curse manifestly appeareth in many Papists this day that become rebels traitors and murtherers as also in heretikes who are become mad and frantick the Lord watching ouer them for euill and not for good And vpon the Israel of God Heere with the Preachers the Apostle ioyneth the people of God shewing that they that willingly heare and carefully imbrace the doctrine That by the law we are condemned for sinne and by the Gospell wee are saued through faith in Christ and therfore from henceforth endeuour to haue this world crucified vnto vs and vs to be crucified to the world and to become new creatures shall also be saued and finde mercie and peace Israel properly signifieth one that preuaileth with God Now because there was Israell in the flesh which many did boast of hee heere speaketh of the Israell in the spirit as he speaketh of the Iewes Rom. 2. and therefore calleth it the Israel of God making a distinction betweene that counterfeit Israell resting in the ceremonie and outward title of the name and that true Israell whose praise is of God and not of men Before the Iewes tooke the whole priuiledge of the couenant of God but now the Gentiles also are contained in the couenant because all ceremonies abolished there is one shepheard and one sheepesold This promise then belongeth no more to all professors than to all preachers but to them alone which are truly called to be the true Israel of God Whereby we are to learne that all Christians shall not obtaine mercie and peace but the Christians of God that is true Christians in life doctrine Wherefore all counterfeit Christians are to feare their estate can they neuer so well say their catechisme were they neuer so well baptized or confirmed were they neuer so often comming to the Church to heare the word receiue the sacrament Now if Israel the beloued of God not reioicing in the crosse of Christ not being crucified to the world not being a newe creature shall not finde mercie and peace what comfort are wee to looke for being Gentiles wanting the same things And yet we must remember the consolation aboue named that though Christians be in some points infants in doctrine iudgement life and conuersation yet if they carefully hold the foundation and build thereupon a godlie life in trueth and sinceritie though in some weakenes infirmitie and imperfection they shall obtaine mercie and peace in the ende The truth of this promise and sure wrath of God on the wicked may appeare to vs both in the life and in the death of the true and counterfeit Christians in seeing what mercy and peace appeareth in the one what anguish and impatience breaketh foorth in the other The deare Martyrs of God neither were afraid of death on the one side but reioyced in that they were made worthie to suffer for the truth neither senselesse and blockish as feeling no paine on the other side The learned heretikes which would seeme to suffer either yeelded being ouercome with the paine or else died like stocks stones being halfe dead before they came to be executed As for others that haue died in their beds the Lord hath giuen a manifest distinction betweene the true prophets false teachers betweene christian professors and obstinate Papists The children of God euer haue laboured to make confession of their faith to make knowne their hope to witnesse their abundant ioy at their departure neither ouercome with immoderate feare neither sincking downe in too much blockishnes the other haue died some desperately without hope some presumptuously without true faith some murmuringly without all ioy FINIS THE FOVRTH PART OF THE WORKES OF THE REVEREND AND FAITHFVL SERVANT OF IESVS CHRIST MAISTER RICHARD GREENHAM MINISTER AND PREACHER OF the Word of GOD containing an Exposition of the 119. Psalme found vnperfect amongst other writings of Maister GREENHAMS and perfected by Robert Hill Doctor in Diuinitie whose obseruations may be knowne by this marke ¶ VVHEREVNTO ARE ADIOYNED OTHER Meditations vpon certaine parts of the Scripture the Titles whereof appeare in the next page following VERITAS VIRESSIT VVLNERE TC AT LONDON Imprinted by Thomas Creede for William Welbie and are to be solde at his shoppe in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Swanne 1611. THE MEDITATIONS CONTAINED IN THE FOVRTH part are these hereafter following 1 AN exposition of the 119. PSALME 2 Meditations on PROV 4. from verse 13. to 24. 3 Meditations on PROV 14. vers 5. 6. 7. 4 The summe of the Epistle to the HEBRVES 5 A briefe summe of ECCLESIASTES TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE IOHN LORDE STANHOP BARON OF HARINGTON VICECHAMberlaine to the Kings most excellent Maiestie and one of his Honorable priuie Councell Grace and Peace RIght Honourable Though Diuinitie as an Hand-maide attende all other callings and by reason of her pouertie serues manie Masters yet if shee were esteemed according to her worth shee were worthie to become a Mistresse to the most Her Conception is Celestiall her