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,…

he hath done enough, let my sitting in judgement upon him cease, seeing he hath so straightly examined himself, I remit all, I will examine no further, he is free, let him come and so let him eat and drink. Thus I say our examination must be in a judicial form, that is, we must enquire of our selves whether we be guilty or¹ not guilty, worthy or unworthy. And because every man is ready to persuade himself that he is worthy, to bear out this point we are to try our selves, whether we have faith; and because faith hath relation to the truth, and the truth must try us, which saith, Cursed ⟨p. 191⟩is he that continueth not in every point of the Law to do it: we must search our books of remembrance,² considering what God hath against us, and examine our selves according to every word thereof. Then because we must be constrained to conclude that we be unworthy, we must in the next place go out of our selves, and faint after the righteousness that can make us worthy. For a man that findeth himself to be left in the estate of condemnation,³ to him will seem a good saying, & worthy to be received, That JESUS CHRIST came into the world to save sinners: and to him the name of a Redeemer will be most precious. And therefore at this second return cometh to be considered of, that Faith which cometh⁴ by the blessing of the Gospel, whereby we seeing our own ignorance, do seek wisdom out of our selves, being conscious of our own unworthiness, and sue for obedience in the Son of GOD: and seeing we are altogether aliens from God by reason of these things, we seek for our perfection in CHRIST, & upon this condition is righteousness given unto us. Then because the examination of this standeth in another point, for that a condemned person will redeem his pardon by a price, be it never so great, if by any means he be able to make it, and a man spareth no cost for that which indeed he doth love, as we may see in the example of a vile love of Esau, who setting his love even upon meat, was content with the loss of his birthright to buy it, if we truly esteem Christ his death, we will give any thing for it. And truly God requireth nothing at our hands, but even that small condition Ephes. 4. 52. To be courteous one to another, and tender hearted, forgiving one another even as God for Christs sake for gave us. Where we see that as God hath for.