A02178:1555
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.
So that there is nothing harder than to si•t and search1 our hearts to the bottom, whether we respect our sins past, or our sins present, whether we look to our privy pride, hidden wants, or secret corruptions.
So that there is nothing harder than to si•t and search1 our hearts to the bottome, whether we respect our sinnes past, or our sinnes present, whether we looke to our priuie pride, hidden wants, or secret corruptions.
- 1Examination hard.
And to return from whence we digressed, to the examination of our hearts, in sin1 to come: let us observe that in Gods children there is such a jealousy, as they tremble at the very first motions, and quake at the least occasion of sin, although because vice will sit in *residence very near unto virtue, there may be in them sometime too much scrupulousness. This fear causeth the dearest of the Saints of God to reason on this sort: O Lord, I see how many excellent in gifts, and constant in profession for a long time, whose end hath not answered their beginnings, whose deaths were not like to their lives. This is true, whether we look into the word or into the world: and it is a thing that may much humble us. For though we may remember what we have been, and know what we are; yet who can tell what may come unto him hereafter.
And to returne from whence we digressed, to the examination of our hearts, in sinne