A02178:1576
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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Concerning those sins whereunto we are tempted, as when a man is moved to think blasphemously of God the father, or to doubt whether there be a Christ or no, or to imagine grossly of the holy Ghost, or to deny God, or to doubt of the Trinity, or to be moved to murder, adultery, or such like: in which temptations he feeleth Gods spirit to check him for them, so as he knoweth not in this case what to do: for that on the one side he dares not listen willingly to these fearful and monstrous temptations; and on the other side, he feareth least in time by long suite, he might fall into them; or at the least for that he seeth not how to be delivered from them: I suppose these motions are not so much to be disputed with, a• we by them are to be provoked to more instant and extraordinary zeal of prayer.
Concerning those sinnes whereunto we are tempted, as when a man is moued to thinke blasphemously of God the father, or to doubt whether there be a Christ or no, or to imagine grossely of the holy Ghost, or to deny God, or to doubt of the Trinitie, or to be moued to murther, adulterie, or such like: in which temptations he feeleth Gods spirit to checke him for thē, so as he knoweth not in this case what to doe: for that on the one side he dares not listen willingly to these fearefull and monstrous temptations; and on the other side, he feareth least in time by long suite, he might fall into them; or at the least for that he se•th not how to be deliuered from them: I suppose these motions are not so much to be disputed with, a• we by them are to be prouoked to more instant and extraordinarie zeale of prayer.
Surely these are dangerous temptations, and therefore are not to be kept close, which our nature will easily incline unto: but particularly are to be confessed of us. For the devil will come sometime to thee, to keep thee still in a general acknowledging of sin, and urge thee on this manner: Surely thou must needs do this sin, thou seest thou canst have no •ase, until thou hast consented, thou art ordained to it: the reason why thou art thus incessantly tempted, is because thou doest not thus take thy pleasure. Go to deny