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,…

Because we will not see Gods wrath, as it is, we see it in justice: for by Gods wrath is justice ⟨p. 197⟩signified unto us. And surely howsoever other qualities in God do not affect us sometime, yet wrath stirs us up. Affections are commonly stirred up by their objects, as fear by wrath: Now if we fear the anger of a man, and specially of a Prince, because the wrath of a Prince seemeth so great a thing to us; what shall we think of the wrath of God,¹ which one way or other we shall surely meet withal, either for to bear it, or else to be reconciled to him for the avoiding of it? Wherefore to reveal to us this wrath, it is Moses his office to teach us to see our sin, & so to bring us within the compass of the law, and of that forfeiture which the law doth award us, that so we may esteem the more of that mercy which is offered in Christ. Now the cause why we esteem not mercy, is because we account so slenderly of our sins, and therefore we do lightly value our sin, because we think no more reverently of Gods wrath against sin: for such is the sense of our sin, as is the fear of his wrath And so we esteem peace as we account of war, and make a prize of our plenty, as we do of our scarcity. If we consider rightly of the want and famine of Samaria, or of Idumea, and see the heads of Asses sold for so much; then we shall be fit to judge rightly of plenty: we are therefore in our afflictions to level at the wrath of God, which is the cause, & not to stay in our affliction, but still look to our sin, without the sight whereof, we shall either stand carping at Gods judgements with Jonah, or we shall fall to curse the day of our birth with Job: so far shall we be from making our true profit by it.

Because we will not see Gods wrath, as it is, we see it in iustice: for by Gods wrath is iustice ⟨p. 197⟩signified vnto vs. And surely howsoeuer other qualities in God doe not affect vs sometime, yet wrath stirres vs vp. Affections are commonly stirred vp by their obiects, as feare by wrath: Now if we feare the anger of a man, and specially of a Prince, because the wrath of a Prince seemeth so great a thing to vs; what shall we thinke of the wrath of God,¹