A02178:1921
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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Fourthly, there is a note of Christian & spiritual anger, which though it be very like to1 the former, yet it discerneth one from another, as much as any other doth. For many men will be angry with other mens sins, but they can never be angry for their own. Against such as these, the Lord speaketh, saying: Hypocrite cast out the beam out of thine own eye first, and then thou shalt see to cast out the mo•e out of thy brothers eye. And again in another place: He that is clear among you, cast the first stone at her.
Fourthly, there is a note of Christian & spirituall anger, which though it be very like to1 the former, yet it discerneth one from another, as much as any other doth. For many men will be angry with other mens sinnes, but they can neuer be angry for their owne. Against such as these, the Lord speaketh, saying: Hypocrite cast out the beame out of thine owne eye first, and then thou shalt see to cast out the mo•e out of thy brothers eye. And againe in another place: He that is cleere among you, cast the first stone at her.
When we therefore can be first angry with our own sins, and more angry with them, than with others, yea when we can throw the first stone at our selves; then is our anger of the Lord. For no man can ever be angry in uprightness of other mens sins, which cannot first be grieved, and angry with his own. If our anger begin first with our selves, and that for every sin that is in us, so that there is no sin which we are willing to favour in our selves, or desirous to continue, and lie in it still, and no man is more grieved for our sins than we our selves are, and we do more accuse and condemn our selves than any other doth, or can do; and again if a sin be not in us, yet we be afraid least it may be, and therefore we use means against it: then if we be angry with the sin of others,