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 other extremity which agreeth not with true humility, is blockish senselessness,¹ and that dead and devilish apoplexy of the mind, which runneth without all foresight, as neither caring for good nor bad, sweet nor sour, heaven nor hell. They that labour of this disease, think it an high point of humility to say, I am at a point, let God do what he will, I care not, if he save me, so it is, if I be damned, what remedy? let men injury me as they will, come what come will, I pass not. And these kind of men as past all feeling, and now more brutish and blockish than any brute beast, in their life, neither tremble at Gods judgements, nor rejoice in his promises; in death they fear not hell, they desire not heaven, they are not grieved if they be damned, they are not comforted to hear they shall be saved, they confess not their sins, they profess not their faith, they show not their² hope, they live like stocks, and die like blocks. And yet the ignorant people will still commend such fearful deaths, saying, he departed as meekly as a lamb, he went away as a bird in a shell, when they might as well say, (but for their featherbed and their pillow) he died like a beast, and perished like an ox in a ditch.

The other extremitie which agreeth not with true humilitie, is blockish senselesnesse,¹ and that dead and diuelish apoplexie of the minde, which runneth without all foresight, as neither caring for good nor bad, sweete nor sowre, heauen nor hell. They that labour of this disease, thinke it an high point of humilitie to say, I am at a point, let God doe what he will, I care not, if he saue me, so it is, if I be damned, what remedie? let men iniurie me as they will, come what come will, I passe not. And these kind of men as past all feeling, and now more brutish and blockish than any bruite beast, in their life, neither tremble at Gods iudgements, nor reioyce in his promises; in death they feare not hell, they desire not heauen, they are not grieued if they be damned, they are not comforted to heare they shal be saued, they confesse not their sinnes, they professe not their faith, they shew not their² hope, they liue like stockes, and die like blockes. And yet the ignorant people will still commend such fearefull deaths, saying, he departed as meekely as a lambe, hee went away as a bird in a shell, when they might as well say, (but for their fetherbed and their pillow) hee died like a beast, and perished like an oxe in a ditch.