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,…

Wherefore we must not be ever learning, and yet not come to the knowledge of the truth, but the trueth must dwell plentifully in us with all wisdom, that we may discern the spirit• ▪ And when we have weighed and found any thing according to the word, then must we receive it as the word of God with reverence, and if we find any thing false in it, we must be so far off from receiving it, that we must hold him accursed that shall bring it, though he were an Angel from Heaven. Foolish then is that phrenetical fancy of the Family of Love, which will say, we may not judge, we cannot condemn. For every Christian taught by the spirit may, yea, and ought in the liberty of the spirit to try and condemn all that is not consonant with the holy word of God. The third thing required of a Christian is, that by his knowledge he be able to instruct and admonish others. This doth Jude in his epistle require, that we should do, when he exhorteth us to edify one another in our most holy faith. This also is given in charge Hebr. 3. that we should admonish one another, and Hebr. 5. it is said, that in respect of the times we ought to be teachers. Our Saviour Christ also commandeth us if our brother offend, that we should admonish him. This duty we owe, and this we must be able to discharge, especially to them of our household, of our town, of our kindred, and so by degrees to all men, as we have occasion to deal with them, and as our calling shall suffer us. The fourth thing is, that we should be able to give an account of our hope, even unto our enemies. This Peter requireth in plain words; this doth our Saviour Christ require, that if we would, he should confess us before his Father, that we should confess him before men. These things were fulfilled in the Apostles times, in the primitive Church, and in Queen Mary's days, and this even among us may be found in many places: therefore this is the true and natural meaning of this place. This was never found in the Anabaptists, who the younger they were in heresy, the better they were in honesty: and if once they wax old in their heresy, they grow not so much in knowledge as in subtlety to invent mens phrases, to delude and deceive with new starched terms. They will avouch nothing before a Magistrate; if they be taken, they will reca•t;