A02178:1916
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
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That we may therefore know spiritual and Christian anger from fleshly & carnal anger, and that we may discern the works of Gods Spirit in us, from the corrupted works1 of our flesh: it shall be profitable by some notes to make a difference between them, that so they may both be known.
That we may therefore know spirituall and Christian anger from fleshly & carnall anger, and that we may discerne the workes of Gods Spirit in vs, from the corrupted workes1 of our flesh: it shall be profitable by some notes to make a difference betweene them, that so they may both be knowne.
- 1Trial of our anger.Triall of our anger.
The first note or difference between these two kinds of anger is this: If we can patiently1 swallow up and overcome injuries and faults committed against our selves, yet in the cause of the Lord, we can be very hot, earnest, and jealous; this is a good sign, that our anger proceedeth from the Spirit of God within us. But contrariwise men in their own causes, and quarrels, and when the injury is done to them, will be very hot, and angry, and marvellously much moved: but in the Lords cause they are as cold as ice, and there is no heat within them, which is a testimony unto them, that their anger is fleshly, and that it doth greatly displease the Lord. Therefore if when we see a man commit any sin, and we also know, that it tendeth to the dishonour of God, and the hurt of his own soul, and if then we can be grieved, and if then we cannot choose but be angry; hereby we may know that our anger is good, because the glory of God, and the profit of our brother did thereunto move us, and not our private injuries. Now if we would be glad thus to make the glory of God the chief cause of our anger; let us first learn to pass over injuries done against us, and quietly to bear them, and by that means we shall better learn more safely to be angry, when the thing concerneth the glory of God, for if a man hath not learned to put up his own injuries patiently and without revenge, he shall mingle it with the other, and so shall pass measure, and most commonly he shall make both unprofitable.