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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,…
The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham, minister and preacher of the Word of God collected into one volume: revised, corrected, and published, for the further building of all such as love the truth, and desire to know the power of godliness. By H.H.The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham, minister and preacher of the Word of God collected into one volume: reuised, corrected, and published, for the further building of all such as loue the truth, and desire to know the power of godlinesse. By H.H.
London: printed by Thomas Snodham and Thomas Creede for William Welby, 1612London: printed by Thomas Snodham and Thomas Creede for VVilliam VVelby, 1612
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4 We must especially beware of smothering the watchword of our conscience, when1 we are bent to sin. Care of a good conscience, breedeth comfort in holiness; and pleasure in holiness breeds assurance of blessedness.
4 Wee must especially beware of smothering the watchword of our conscience, when1 we are bent to sinne. Care of a good conscience, breedeth comfort in holinesse; and pleasure in holinesse breedes assurance of blessednesse.
- 1The watchword of the conscience. True peace of conscience. The state of man before grace, and in grace.
5 We have great peace, but no true peace, until we turn to God: until the Israelites would serve God, Pharaoh let them alone, but afterward he prepares for them, brick, lime, and a furnace: so long as we are quiet in sin, all is well; but if once we defy sin, then the devil will heat a furnace for us: yea he will rather than he would leese us, give wages to us, as he did to Judas. Hereof it is, that so long as we have no sense of sin, we can eat, drink, and sleep quietly, but when once we make conscience of sin, then comes trouble and vexation of mind, which worldly minded men would marvel at: But they are at peace with the devil; for were they not at peace, they should be put out of his service. But doth not the Lord say, The wicked have no peace? Isaiah. 57. True it is, they have no peace with God and with their own consciences, albeit they have great peace with the flesh, and1 world, and the devil. The peace of the wicked is like an harness unoccupied, to a vineyard never stirred, to a ground never ploughed: they are never surbushed with crosses, but rust upon the walls; yet far better were it for them to be disquieted, and have their fallow hearts broken and rent up. The holy Ghost saith, that the just man shall have peace at the last: So that there is a first peace, and that is a truce for a few days: and there is another