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,…

To shut up this matter, we know that when Herod seemed to have won the garland, and by a solemn oration to have carried away the praise of God, and not of man; because he challenged the whole glory to himself, & robbed God of his honour, was most shamefully dishonoured, and fearfully devoured with l•ce consuming his bowels. Ne•ther are we •o observe this in the wicked alone, who when they looked for greatest glory, had the greatest shame, but in the godly also, as Abraham, Asa, Hezekiah David, who when they were most¹ humbled, were most exalted, and when they thought themselves to be most ex•lted, were most humbled. Asa notwithstanding he had some season continued constant in the reformation of religion, falling at the length to reprehend the Prophet, & declining from his former humility, fell into sickness, & in his sickness trusting to the help of man more than ⟨p. 269⟩to the Lord, received the sentence of death: and to save his soul by cutting off his days▪ it pleased God to visit him in the flesh. Hezekiah obtaining his health, and having received² a glorious deliverance from the host of Z•nacharib, in that he rendered not the glory due to the Lord, received not long after heavy tidings, how both he and his linage should³ descend captives into Babel. Josiah that holy pattern of godly princes, not asking counsel at the mouth of the Lord when he should enter battle, was mercifully punished in this life, that he might escape the fearful punishment of the wi•ked in the life to come. David ⁴thinking in his prosperity to be builded upon an unremovable rock, and to be as a walled city, suspecting nothing and being out of the watch, he fell into a grievous sin, whereby the latter part of his life was more reproachful than glorious. The Apostle Peter after he