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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.
Calling.
1 A Certain man afflicted in mind, began, through the temptation of1 Satan, to mislike his calling, and changed it, afterward he thought this calling & that calling to be unlawful, and so was almost brought to mislike all. He felt on a time a great pain in his leg, and being desirous to go from his bed to his table for a book, he could not, his leg remaining sore: Then remembering that it was said in the Scripture, If thy foot offend thee, cut it off; he straight way laying his le•ge on a block, and taking a hatchet in his hand, stroke off his leg, not feeling pain, the veins being so torn, he could not but bleed to death, how be it he dyed very penitently: so dangerous a policy, & so perilous a temptation is it, to leave our callings as things unlawful.2
1 A Certaine man afflicted in minde, began, through the temptation of1 Sathan, to mislike his calling, and chaunged it, afterward he thought this calling & that calling to be vnlawfull, and so was almost brought to mislike all. He felt on a time a great paine in his legge, and being desirous to goe from his bed to his table for a booke, he could not, his legge remaining sore: Then remembring that it was said in the Scripture, If thy foote offend thee, cut it off; he straight way laying his le•ge on a blocke, and taking a hatchet in his hand, stroake off his legge, not feeling paine, the veynes being so torne, he could not but bleed to death, how be it he dyed very penitently: so dangerous a policie, & so perilous a temptation is it, to leaue our callings as things vnlawfull.