A02178:1571
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
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As we require these things to be the matter of our Ministry in such a perplexity: so we would wish the persons ministering to be men learned and of sound judgement, wise, and1 of godly experience, meek and of most joving spirits. For when the troubled patient shall be well persuaded of our knowledge and discretion, and there withal shall perceive us to come in tender and loving affection, I think an entrance is made, and all prejudice is taken away, so as we may the more freely work upon the conscience; first bringing them to the sight of sin, as to some cause of their trouble. Herein we must labour to put away all confusion and blindness of sorrow, endeavouring by wisdom to bring the parties wounded to some certain object and matter of their trouble; and so draw out of them the confession of some several, especial, & secret sin; I say several and secret sin, because I know, how many (through a palpable blindness or disordered discerning of sin) talk of nothing so much as of sin; and yet they either cannot descry (several sins, or they will not be brought to acknowledge their secret sins: whereof the one proceedeth of the ignorance of the law of God, and the other of self-love, which maketh us l••t••e even in our travel of mind, to shame our selves.
As we require these things to be the matter of our Ministerie in such a perplexitie: so we would wish the persons ministring to be men learned and of sound iudgement, wise, and1 of godly experience, meeke and of most iouing spirits. For when the troubled patient shall be wel perswaded of our knowledge and discretion, and there withall shall perceiue vs to come in tender and louing affection, I thinke an entrance is made, and all preiudice is taken away, so as we may the more freely worke vpon the conscience; first bringing them to the sight of sinne, as to some cause of their trouble. Herein we must labour to put away all confusion and blindnesse of sorrow, endeuouring by wisedome to bring the parties wounded to some certaine obiect and matter of their trouble; and so draw out of them the confession of some seuerall, especiall, & secret sinne; I say seuerall and secret sinne, because I know, how many (through a palpable blindnesse or disordered discerning of sinne) talke of nothing so much as of sinne; and yet they either cannot desry (seuerall sinnes, or they will not be brought to acknowledge their secret sinnes: whereof the one proceedeth of the ignorance of the law of God, and the other of selfe-loue, which maketh vs lte euen in our trauell of minde, to shame our selues.