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,…

3 When affliction cometh to Gods children, not so much the sins themselves, as¹ the not avoiding of the means which procured their sins, and not the using of the ⟨p. 639⟩means which might have preserved them from sin, will torment their consciences: for² as a man falling into some sickness, if it come whilst he is walking in his calling, is then less grieved, than if through surfeiting he had procured and hatched the disease in himself, even so it cometh to pa•••m in the other. By using the means of godliness in simplicity of heart, we shall be either freed from sin, wherein we have lien, or else be confirmed in some good things begun in us.

3 When affliction commeth to Gods children, not so much the sinnes themselues, as¹ the not auoiding of the meanes which procured their sinnes, and not the vsing of the ⟨p. 639⟩meanes which might haue preserued them from sinne, will torment their consciences: for² as a man falling into some sicknesse, if it come whilest he is walking in his calling, is then lesse grieued, than if through surfetting hee had procured and ha•ched the disease in himselfe, euen so it commeth to pa•••m in the other. By vsing the meanes of godlines in simplicitie of heart, we shall be either freed from sinne, wherein we haue lyen, or else be confirmed in some good things begun in vs.

1. 12. Chro. 19. 2,
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