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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
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And that we be not too preposterous in our consolation, let us be warned by the blasphemous speech of that detestable Arian, who of late years was put to death at Norwich. This hellish heretic, a little before he should be executed, afforded a few whorish tears,1 asking whether he might be saved in Christ or no? When one told him, that if he truly repented, he should surely not perish: he brake out most monstrously into this speech: Nay, is your Christ so easily to be entreated indeed, as you say? then I defy him, and care not for him. Oh how good a thing had it bin not to have cast this precious stone to this swine? Oh how safe had it been to have dealt more bitterly, and to have dwelt more vehemently on the conscience of this caitiff?
And that we be not too preposterous in our consolation, let vs be warned by the blasphemous speech of that detestable Arriā, who of late yeeres was put to death at Norwich. This hellish heretike, a little before he should be executed, affoorded a few whorish teares,1 asking whether he might be saued in Christ or no? When one told him, that if he truly repented, he should surely not perish: he brake out most monstrously into this speech: Nay, is your Christ so easily to be intreated indeed, as you say? then I defie him, and care not for him. Oh how good a thing had it bin not to haue cast this precious stone to this swine? Oh how safe had it been to haue dealt more bitterly, and to haue dwelt more vehemently on the conscience of this cai•ife?
- 1An Arian executed at Norwich.
Now to attain some discretion in curing this wounded spirit, we must learn wisely to1 judge, both of the person afflicted, and of the nature of his affliction. First, we may note