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,…

Here is an argument of true love: Lord, saith the man of God, I love thy law in my¹ self, I love it also in others; for look what good thing is in me, I wish the same in others: I hate sin in my self, I am sorry for it in others: For look what evil I mislike in my self, I am grieved for it in others.

HEre is an argument of true loue: Lord, saith the man of God, I loue thy law in my¹ selfe, I loue it also in others; for looke what good thing is in me, I wish the same in others: I hate sinne in my selfe, I am sorie for it in others: For looke what euill I mislike in my selfe, I am grieued for it in others.

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That we may make this a rule, to examine our hearts by: do we love the law of God? how shall we know it? even when we are as glad, that others do well, and fare well to their salvation, as we would be for our selves; when we are as much grieved, when others do ill, as if we our selves had done it. For many will come so far, as to mislike sin, and to speak vehemently against sin, but few come to be grieved for sin: wherefore seeing sin is so ripe, let us so be grieved for it as we may pray against it, and let us crave of God to have this godly grief stricken into us, that by that means we may be stirred up to prayer, and so we shall in time to come, either rejoice to see our prayers granted, and our mournings effectual, or else we shall bear the testimony of a good conscience, and in as much as in us doth lie, we shall be guiltless of their sins. Neither in saying, Consider how I love thy precepts, doth the man of God say out his good deeds, but humbly confesseth to the Lord his own graces received, as may appear by the words following, where he pleadeth mercy and not merit. This love wherewith he loved God came from that¹