GREEN/IA.1W. 417 have been so well satisfied with this answer, that he dismissed him in peace.. Mr. Greenham united with his brethren in subscribing the 44 Book of Discipline."t This worthy divine having laboured in the ministry at Drayton about twenty-oneyears, removed to London, and became minister at Christ,church, where, in about two years, he finished his labours. Hedied a most comfortable and happy ,death, in the year 1591, aged sixty years: Fuller, who says he died of the plague, observes, that lie was an avowed enemy to nonresidents, and wondered how such men could find any comfort in their wealth. "For,"he used to say, 44 they must see written 'upon all they have, this is the price of blood." Our author adds, that be was most precise in his conversation, a strict observer of the Lord's day, and that nobook madea gr=eater impression upon theminds ofthepeople, than his 44 Treatise on the Sabbath," which greatly promoted the observance of it through the nation Mr. Strype denominates him apious ,minister, but not well affected to the orders of the established church.§ -Mr. Greenhorn was an excellent writer, for the time in which he lived. His works, including Sermons, Treatises, and a Commentary.on Psalm cxix., came forth at different times, but, were collected and published in one volume folio, in 1601. The excellent Bishop Wilkins speaks in high commendation of his sermons, classing them with the most valuable in his day.i And his commentary, says Dr. Williams, is admirable, for the time in which it was written, both for style and method ; and, like all the productions of this author, is full of spiritual unction.1 - The above edition of, Mr. Greenharn's works was published by Mr. Henry Holland, and dedicated to the Countess of Cumberland and the Countess Dowager of Huntington. In this dedication, it is observed as follows : I come as in the name of the faithful servant of Christ, Mr. Richard Greenham, a man -well known unto your honours, and to those most religious patrons of all piety and good learning, the Right HOnourable Earls of Huntington, 'Warwick, and Bedford, of blessed 'memory, which now sleep in the Lord. Of themwas he much reverenced in hiS life-time; of your honours much lamented- after. death ;- for youknow the loss of suchtobe no small rack unto the church and people of God. Such experience and good. liking Clark's Lives,p. 13. t Neal's Puritans, vol. I. p. 421 t Fuller's Church Hist, b. is. p. 219,220. § Strype's Ayliner,,p, 152. Discourse on Preaching,1). 82, 83. I Christian Preacher, p. 431. VOL. If 2 E
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