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,…

My flesh also doth rest in hope. See, his godly joy made him have a security in his flesh. It is our naturally infirmity that we have a trembling of the flesh which hindereth in us many good actions, as may be seen in our thoughts, suspecting of dangers, scarefull imaginations, and wandering conceits, forecasting this evil and that evil▪ to the great disturbing and disordering of the peace of our minds, all the which excessive fears were in this man of God wisely corrected, though not utterly removed, but suppressed in him by faith. Whereof cometh then our carnal and immoderate fears in dangers but of want of faith? This our Saviour Christ teacheth his disciples, at what time they were with him being asleep in a tempest on the seas, when they through unbelief feared his divinity to have slept with his humanity, where he saith unto them, O ye little faith, why do you not believe? Here we see he rebuketh their excessive fear, which thing he also doth almost in the same manner. When they carnally feared him to have been a spirit as he walked on the seas, they were not throughly persuaded that God was their portion, their inheritance, and watched over them; for if they had, they would have corrected these fleshly and immoderate fea••s, that they should not have hindered their holy meditations of God his powerful providence, nor their prayers for his gracious assistance, nor any other good exercises of their minds. Thus we see how the sure persuasion of God to be his inheritance, his maintainer both in soul and body, his reacher both by day and by night, both by his word and his spirit made the man of God secure both in soul and body. And what caused this? partly that which we spake of before, partly that which followeth, for thou wilt •ot leave my soul in the grave, neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption: so that the promises already tasted of, and the sure expectation to have the good work begun to be finished in him, made him rest in hope, and having God his cause in hand, he saw how the Lord would not only watch over him for his present estate, but also would guide him to immortality. Behold how his inward assurance wrought an outward safety, whereby we plainly see, that where there is a want of this ⟨p. 331⟩comfort and faith in the soul, there is a want of peace and security in the body.