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 Pastor for the people, the people for the Pastor must make prayers & supplications. Generally, all must so let their light shine before men, & so watch in prayer, that others seeing our godly life may say, oh what a people in wisdom & true godliness is this, it is a good and an happy thing to join our selves to them, what zeal, what humility, what plentiful fruits of faith are here, blessed are the people that have such a Pastor, blessed is the Pastor that hath such a people! And here let us remember, how the Apostles did not only pray for the increase of God his spirit in themselves, but for the beginnings of it in others, which as yet had not received it: teaching us thereby what is our duty, to wit, that we rest not in our own private feelings, or in praying for the increase of them, but that we pray that others may taste of the like joys as we feel, & that the seed of God his Spirit may bud forth, that both we and they joining together in devout prayer and Christian practise of our profession, may call and allure others as yet further from us to come nearer to us. But some will say unto me: I was wont to have better dispositions, and to feel sweeter motions, than I have done of late, I profit little or nothing, nay I fear rather I go back. Why, I pray you, is this? I say, surely God his spirit worketh not in me, as he hath done before, because I cannot have such delight in the word, such sweetness in fervent prayer, such joy in the Sacraments, I have not such a plentiful measure of God his spirit in me.

The Pastor for the people, the people for the Pastor must make prayers & supplications. Generally, all must so let their light shine before men, & so watch in prayer, that others seeing our godly life may say, oh what a people in wisedome & true godlines is this, it is a good and an happie thing to ioyne our selues to them, what zeale, what humilitie, what plentifull fruits of faith are here, blessed are the people that haue such a Pastor, blessed is the Pastor that hath such a people! And here let vs remember, how the Apostles did not onely pray for the increase of God his spirit in themselues, but for the beginnings of it in others, which as yet had not receiued it: teaching vs thereby what is our dutie, to wit, that we rest not in our owne priuate feelings, or in praying for the increase of them, but that we pray that others may taste of the like ioyes as we feele, & that the seede of God his Spirit may bud foorth, that both we and they ioyning together in deuout prayer and Christian practise of our profession, may call and allure others as yet further from vs to come neerer to vs. But some will say vnto me: I was wont to haue better dispositions, and to feele sweeter motions, than I haue done of late, I profit little or nothing, nay I feare rather I goe backe. Why, I pray you, is this? I say, surely God his spirit worketh not in me, as he hath done before, because I cannot haue such delight in the word, such sweetnes in feruent prayer, such ioy in the Sacraments, I haue not such a plentifull measure of God his spirit in me.