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,…

given us, so we should forgive others▪ •or a man that purposeth truly to have Christ, it is little to give •ove: that as the Godhead head wrought in love towards us, so we must work in¹ love toward others. This as a necessary thing is first to be required, the rather for that we escaping the sentence of condemnation, and that by no other means but by remission, which is as a bridge to escape by, it were very rigorous and hard dealing, we our selves having gotten over, & others being as desirous to come over, if we should pull up the bridge² from them: this would be too savage even among the heathen. This point of loving others, God so loveth, and so accounteth of, that if a man were ready to come to the Lord his immediate worship, he is content this duty should rather be left to him undone, then that duty should be undone to our brethren. And in the parable of the debtor we see this more effectually. For so long as the debt is directly the Lords, he breaketh out into no³ such words, as he doth when the servant taketh his fellow servant by the throat: saying, Pay me that thou owest; So that the retaining of enmity to our brethren doth after a sort more offend God, then our offending against God himself. This is all the Examination before hand.⁴

giuen vs, so we should forgiue others▪ •or a man that purposeth truely to haue Christ, it is little to giue •oue: that as the Godhead head wrought in loue towards vs, so we must worke in¹ loue toward others. This as a necessary thing is first to be required, the rather for that we escaping the sentence of condemnation, and that by no other meanes but by remission, which is as a bridge to escape by, it were very rigorous and hard dealing, we our selues hauing gotten ouer, & others being as desirous to come ouer, if we should pull vp the bridge