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,…

5 Consider Gods liking of Timothy, David, Samuel, the Prophet of Prophets, who served¹ God when he was a child, and so the good King Josiah. These were not trees which ⟨p. 637⟩blossom when others have done. Let men be never so soundly come home, it were better² they had never been so, both for the Churches and themselves, for they carry the smell of the garlic mortar still where ever they go.

5 Consider Gods liking of Timothie, Dauid, Samuel, the Prophet of Prophets, who serued¹ God when hee was a childe, and so the good King Iosiah. These were not trees which ⟨p. 637⟩blossome when others haue done. Let men be neuer so soundly come home, it were better² they had neuer beene so, both for the Churches and themselues, for they carrie the smell of the garlike morter still where euer they goe.

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2. 2Take heed of lusts of youth

6 Old men which have lived loosely in youth, have great diffidence in themselves, for they dare not reprehend so sharply, as others; nor punish so severely as they should, for that the sins of their youth are so in their foreheads, and all men see them. Many of these