A02178:4204
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
18 He that feareth hardness of heart if he can but sigh and groan, because he feeleth1 his hardness of heart, it is so much comfort unto him, as it is a testimony that his heart is not altogether hardened: so that if thou feelest sorrow indeed, although thou weepest not, yet thou mayest gather comfort, considering that that sorrow is for sin, with a love and hunger after God: if thy assaults be distrust, pride, arrogance, ambition, envy, concupiscence as hot as the fire of the furnace all the day long: and though Satan layeth on oil in great measure, and out of all measure, that it is of the wonderful strength & goodness2 of the Lord that thou standest; and though thy prayers be dull and full of wearisomeness, so that strife and ways also to all goodness be so hard to thee, that thou canst not tell whether thou strivest for fear of punishment or love of so good a father: yet if thou feelest this in thy self, that thou wantest fear, and yet desirest to love the Lord and to be better, being wearied and tired with sin, and desirest to please God in a simple obedience of faith, then comfort thy self.
18 He that feareth hardnes of heart if he can but sigh and groane, because he feeleth1 his hardnes of heart, it is so much comfort vnto him, as it is a testimonie that his heart is not altogether hardened: so that if thou feelest sorrow indeed, although thou weepest not, yet thou maist gather comfort, considering that that sorrow is for sin, with a loue and hunger after God: if thy assaults be distrust, pride, arrogancie, ambition, enuie, concupiscence as hot as the fire of the furnace all the day long: and though Sathan layeth on oyle in great measure, and out of all measure, that it is of the wonderfull strength & goodnes2 of the Lord that thou standest; and though thy prayers be dull and full of wearisomnes, so that strife and waies also to all goodnes be so hard to thee, that thou canst not tell whether thou striuest for feare of punishment or loue of so good a father: yet if thou feelest this in thy selfe, that thou wantest feare, and yet desirest to loue the Lord and to be better, being wearied and tired with sinne, and desirest to please God in a simple obedience of faith, then comfort thy selfe.