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,…

VI. The sixth serves well for Christian parents, for the good education of children. 1. He warneth them, that they lament not so much for their children, if they be dismembered, or prove idiots, as if they prove gross sinners, & so become worse than idiots. For such assuredly (without repentance) dishonour God greatly in this life, & cannot escape everlasting perdition after death: but of poor idiots there is m•re hope. 2. Next he teacheth Parents, that when they find foul sins in their children, wisely to consider what causes breed them: whether they be not themselves disobedient to their heavenly father, hand have been to their natural parents, and yet not repented of their sins. 3. Lastly, with what wisdom and affection we must correct our children, ever mindful how that we punish our own sins in them. And thus much of the sixth Sermon.

VI. The sixth serues well for Christian parents, for the good education of children. 1. Hee warneth them, that they lament not so much for their children, if they bee dismembred, or prooue idiots, as if they prooue grosse sinners, & so become worse than idiots. For such assuredly (without repentance) dishonour God greatly in this life, & cānot escape euerlasting perdition after death: but of poore idiots there is m•re hope. 2. Next he teacheth Parents, that when they finde foule sins in their children, wisely to consider what causes breed them: whether they be not thēselues disobedient to their heauenly father, hand haue been to their naturall parents, and yet not repented of their sinnes. 3. Lastly, with what wisedome and affection we must correct our children, euer mindfull how that we punish our owne sinnes in them. And thus much of the sixth Sermon.

VII. The seventh and last Sermon teacheth us: 1. That sorrow for sin is the first step to godliness: for (saith he) it is impossible to hunger after Christ without it. 2. That the word of God must effect that sorrow in us, by piercing our hearts, and teaching us that we have to do with God, and not with men, and this will wound us with a lively feeling of Gods judgement. 3. That we must wisely discern between the true sorrow for sin, which causeth repentance not to be repented of, and that worldly sorrow which causeth death. For godly sorrow softeneth the hart to the obedience of the word: but that worldly sorrow causeth men to kick and spurn against the word, to the further hardening of their hearts. 4. That many are galled and pricked with poverty, sickness, and other afflictions: but few with their sins, which is the cause of their afflictions. But let men be well assured of this (saith he) that if a man be not troubled for sin here, he is in the way to hell: if he be troubled in this life for sin, he is in the way to heaven. 5. Lastly, that in true repentance the pricking of the heart, and sorrowing for sin, must be continued and daily renewed: we must be humbled with continual sorrow, that we may be refreshed with daily comfort in Christ. And thus far the compendious and short view of all these Sermons.