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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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The patient here must do his part, prout fides patientis adivvat: and the assistants1 must be of like tender affection, and good means must inform, and time convenient rightly be applied. *It fares here with us as with other men in humane sciences, we know the afflictions of the mind to be very great and dangerous, but how great and perilous, all men cannot so well conceive, much less how with art and skill to proceed in the practise of this cure.
The patient here must doe his part, prout fides patientis adiuuat: and the assistants1 must be of like tender affection, and good meanes must imforme, and time conuenient rightly be applied. *It fares here with vs as with other men in humane sciences, wee know the afflictions of the minde to be very great and dangerous, but how great and perilous, all men cannot so well conceiue, much lesse how with art and skill to proceede in the practise of this cure.
- 1Cypr tract 4. de Idolor▪ va•it.
- *Magnum esse solem Philosophus probabit, quantus sit Mathematicus, qui usu quodam, & exercitatione procedit: sed ut procedat, impetranda illi quaedam princifia sunt. Sen lib. 13 Epist. 89.Magnum esse solem Philosophus probabit, quantus sit Mathematicus, qui vsu quodam, & exercitatione procedit: sed vt procedat, impetranda illi quaedam princifia sunt. Sen lib. 13 Epist. 89.
This reverend man of God, M. GREENHAM, was a man in his life time of great hope, and could have given best rules for this unknown faculty: for that the Lord by his good knowledge and experience, restored many from unspeakable torments, and terrors of mind; of which some are asleep in Christ, and as yet living not a few. If the Lord had not so soon translated him to rest, he was no doubt as fit, and as willing as any in our age to effect this matter. Of his knowledge this way, all the godly learned that knew him, both can and will speak, I doubt not. Of his good will herein to posterity, let his own words testify the good desires of his heart: for by a special occasion he speaketh of himself on this manner. He hath had a long time a settled disposition (as he trusteth) of God, to study the cases of Conscience, to succour the perplexed in them: he