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,…

1. The last note (though many other might be named) shall be this, patiently to endure¹ an admonition and reproof, and to be desirous of the same, to the intent we may profit thereby: in public to like best, and desire most those sermons, wherein our own corruptions are most throughly met withal, and struck at with greatest sharpness and vehemency: and in private to be most glad of the society of those friends, that will in wisdom and mercy tell us most often, and most plainly of our faults.

1. The last note (though many other might be named) shal be this, patiently to endure¹ an admonition and reproofe, and to be desirous of the same, to the intent we may profite thereby: in publike to like best, and desire most those sermons, wherein our owne corruptions are most throughly met withall, and strucke at with greatest sharpnes and vehemencie: and in priuate to be most glad of the societie of those friends, that will in wisedome and mercie tell vs most often, and most plainly of our faults.

1. 1• ▪ To receive a rebu•e willingly and profitably.• ▪ To receiue a rebu•e willingly and profitablie.

Hypocrites, cannot abide that any should •ubbe upon their galled backs, as it were, or¹ come near them, to touch their gouty, and festered, and corrupted consciences, but they will wince and kick, and lay about them, and cry out on those that are such judgers, and such busy-bodies (as they term them) and so reject all wholesome reproofs, and carry a bitter heart against the reprovers. Only those that are sound-hared, can submit themselves, in the lowliness of their minds, and meekness of their spirits, to bear admonitions when they need it, (be he a superior or an inferior, that administereth the same) and labour to make a right use hereof, and to love the party the better, that will deal so mercifully and faithfully with their souls.