A02178:1574
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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Now if in this trouble the persons humbled cannot come to the particular sight of sin in themselves; it is good to use the help of others, unto whom they may offer their harts to be gauged and searched, and their lives to be examined more deeply, by hearing the several Articles of the Law laid open before them; whereby they may try the whole course of their actions. For (as we said before) the grossest hypocrites will generally complain of sin; and yet deal with them in particular points of the particular precepts, and prove them in the applying of things to be done or not done to their own consciences; and we shall see many of these poor souls tossed to and fro, now floating in joys, now plunged in sorrows, not able to distinguish one sin from another.
Now if in this trouble the persons humbled cannot come to the particular sight of sinne in themselues; it is good to vse the helpe of others, vnto whom they may offer their harts to be gaged and searched, and their liues to be examined more deepely, by hearing the seuerall Articles of the Law laid open before them; whereby they may trie the whole course of their actions. For (as we said before) the grossest hypocrites will generally complaine of sinne; and yet deale with them in particular pointes of the particular precepts, and prooue them in the applying of things to be done or not done to their owne consciences; and we shall see many of these poore soules tossed to and fro, now floting in ioyes, now plunged in sorrowes, not able to distinguish one sinne from another.
Now when we shall see the wound of the spirit to arise of any certain and known sin, it is either for some sin already committed, wherein we lie; or else for some sin as yet not committed, but whereunto we are tempted. For the former; it pleaseth God oftentimes to bring old sins to mind, when we had not throughly repented of them before; that so (as it were) representing them to us afresh, we might fall into a more misliking of them. And yet herein is not all, to mislike our selves for some particulars, although it be good to be occupied about some special sins: for as it is not sufficient for the avoiding of hypocrisy, to see sin generally: so it is not enough to eschew the deceivableness of the heart, ever to be