A02178:2048
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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then doth it let us see the perverse corruption of our judgement, and that before God,1 and in things belonging to God, we be as brute beasts, not able to discern things that differ, nor to put a sound difference between good and evil: then doth it let us see that our ⟨p. 243⟩reason is unreasonable, nay, that it is hurtful unto us, a great enemy to faith, and a great patron of infidelity and unbelief. When it cometh to our affections, it turneth them2 upside down, it turneth our mirth into mourning, our pleasure into painfulness, and our greatest delight into most bitter grief. If it do proceed further, and come once to the heart, and to the stomach and courage that is in us, then it cutteth us to the quick, then3 doth it at once cast us down in humility under the hand of God: for while we had to deal with men, we were as stout as any, and would not start for the best. We had reason to say for our selves, and courage to defend our selves against all them that did deal with us: but now the spirit draweth us into the presence of God, it letteth us see that we have to do with God, & that our strength is weakness in respect of him. Then doth our heart begin to fail us, then do we lay our hands on our mouths, and dare not answer: nay, then do we quickly take up our cross, because the Lord himself hath done it. Behold here how the spirit worketh, behold how sin is corrected: and who so can behold here this in himself, may assuredly say, that the spirit of God is in him, that it is not in vain within him, nay, that it is mighty and lively in operation in his heart.
then doth it let vs see the peruerse corruption of our iudgement, and that before God,1 and in things belonging to God, we be as bruit beasts, not able to discerne things that differ, nor to put a sound difference betweene good and euill: then doth it let vs see that our ⟨p. 243⟩reason is vnreasonable, nay, that it is hurtfull vnto vs, a great enemie to faith, and a great patrone of infidelitie and vnbeleefe. When it commeth to our affections, it turneth them