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 stile of Moses, Psal. 90. 11. doth vehemently set down the paucity of¹ them that truly fear God: he saith who feareth, &c. we know the thing sought for and enquired after, is not known to the Asker; for then the question were vain and superfluous, and the very nature and institution of a question is to have relation evermore to the increase of knowledge in some thing not sufficiently known: wherefore it is like that Moses knew few fearing God aright, and in general this stile is very needful in all Gods things, for we are slenderly acquainted with them, but in evil things there is no question or enquiry to be made, as being a thing coming into the eyes, ears, and hearts of all men enough, and as we see by daily experience too much. Now if we will go from Moses time, to Davids time, we shall see he makes the like question, Psalm, 15. 1. Lord who shall dwell in thy tabernacle, &c. as one that saw a great want of men desiring that way, but come to the contrary: and Psalm 14. he showeth that all are gone out of the way, all are corrupt, there needs no question to be made of such. Go yet further to the days of Isaiah, and we see his stile to jump with both the former, as Isaiah, 53 Who hath believed our report? as though ⟨p. 195⟩