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,…

And as for young mens consciences, Augustine compareth them to water¹ in a basin, the water is stirred, and there is no face seen: but so soon as maturity of years come, then it will stand still, and we shall see our faces, and cry with David and Job, Lord wipe away the sins of my youth. The third judgement may be compared to a² quarter sessions, that doth consist in depriving of commodities, the mulct is the loss of Gods grace, an unsensible punishment, but so great, that if all the creatures should³ mourn, saith Chrysostom, it were not sufficient, when grace is taken away from one⁴ man. If we will not be moved with the loss of that, which God makes account of, he will take away that which we make account of, as by taking away our preferment, wit, &c. for I account that man to have lost his wit, which is turned into a Fox, which hath nothing⁵ but craft and subtlety. Then he sendeth sickness, reproaches and hearts grief to humble us, or some singular sharp judgement on some, of very good hope, and love, and taketh them out of this life, to warn us that are a great deal worse, to the terror of the wicked, and⁶ that they might not see the punishments he is to bring upon the ungodly for sin. Now for as much as a man in the first judgement is condemned, in the second quited, in the third reprieved: Therefore the Lord hath appointed a fourth judgment, which shall pay them home: and that may be compared, if I may so say, to the gaole delivery, and this is called the day of judgement. In comparison whereof other judgements are as nothing. Then God will take⁷ the matter into his own hand, then shall there be a new Quest, then all th•se matters that are shuffled up, and evil judged, shall be judged again. Now is the day of affections, but then the day of judgement: in it we shall lose all that is to be lost. Now for this day & this judgement,