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,…

Now there are divers kinds of zeal: there is a zeal of the world, there is a zeal of the¹ flesh; there is a zeal of false religion; there is a zeal of heresy, and there is a zeal of the true word of God. First, we see the zeal of the world maketh men to labour day and² night to get a transitory thing. The zeal of the flesh tormenteth mens minds early and³ late for a momentary pleasure. The zeal of heresy maketh men travail and compass⁴ Sea and Land, for the maintaining and increasing of these opinion. Thus we see every man is eaten with some kind of zeal. The drunkard is consumed with drunkenness, the whoremonger is spent with his whoredom, the Heretic is eaten with heresies: oh how ought this to make us ashamed, who are so little eaten, spent, & consumed, with the zeal of the word! And so much the rather, because godly zeal leaveth in us an advantage, and a recompense, which the worldly and carnally zealous men have not. For when they have spent all the strength of their bodies, and powers of their mind, they have no gain, nor comfort left, but torment of conscience; and when they are outwardly spent, they are inwardly never the better: whereas the godly being consumed for a good thing, and eaten up with the zeal of Gods glory, have this notable privilege and profit, that howsoever their outward man perisheth and decayeth, yet their inward man is still refreshed and nourished to everlasting life. Oh what a benefit it is to be eaten with the love and zeal of a good thing.

Now there are diuers kinds of zeale: there is a zeale of the world, there is a zeale of the¹ flesh; there is a zeale of false religion; there is a zeale of heresie, and there is a zeale of the true word of God. First, wee see the zeale of the world maketh men to labour day and² night to get a transitorie thing. The zeale of the flesh tormenteth mens minds early and³