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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.
Concupiscence.
1 One asking his advice how he might best avoid concupiscence, he said to him,1 that a continual examination of our selves by the law; a reverent and daily meditation2 of the word; a painful walking in our honest calling; a holy shaming of our3 selves, and fearing of our selves before our friends; a continual temperance in diet, sleep,4 and apparel: a careful watching over our eyes, and other parts of our bodies; a zealous5 jealousy to avoid all occasions of person, time & place, which might nourish concupiscence;6 a godly frequenting of persons, times, & places, which may breed in us true mortification;7 together with an humbling of our selves, with the shame of our sins past, with8 the grief of sins present, and with fear of sins to come: lastly, a careful using of fasting,