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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
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.
Dreams.
Dreames.
1 A Natural dream, which cometh of natural causes, easily slippeth away: but if our dreams dwell longer upon us, and leave some greater impression in us, they may be thought to proceed either from God, or from the devil. And by these it is good to profit, if they be favourable, by thinking such a thing we might have, if we1 were not unprepared for it: if contrary, by thinking and forecasting, and fearing such an evil, if the Lord be not merciful; because God doth often correct some sin past which we regarded not, or foreshows some sin to come which we were not afraid of: and an2 evil dream doth show some evil in the heart, either in some sin already committed, or in some sin which may be shortly committed. If the dream be terrible, it is good to3 avoid all the occasions of that evil, and to give our selves to prayer, and not to give too great credit to dreams, least they weaken faith. The best is to be neither too remiss, nor4 too wise in them, but to labour to profit by them, because the Lord by leaving such long impressions in us, doth as it were call upon our consciences not to pass them over without5 some use.
1 A Naturall dreame, which commeth of naturall causes, easily slippeth away: but if our dreames dwell longer vpon vs, and leaue some greater impression in vs, they may be thought to proceed either from God, or from the diuell. And by these it is good to profit, if they be fauourable, by thinking such a thing we might haue, if we