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,…

If God then did not bear with sin in his Son being but imputed unto him, he will not be a bearer of us in sin, having to the full committed it, but we may well make our accounts, come sin, come wrath. Thirdly, if the Lord be angry with our inventions, which do not hurt him (for though kings did encamp themselves against him, he would laugh them to scorn) then had we need to be angry with our sins, because they will else throw us down into hell. If this word Wrath now will not move us, surely it would not move us to see the mountain of smoke, as that of Sinai.

If God then did not beare with sinne in his Sonne being but imputed vnto him, he will not bee a bearer of vs in sinne, hauing to the full committed it, but we may well make our accomptes, come sinne, come wrath. Thirdly, if the Lord be angrie with our inuentions, which do not hurt him (for though kings did incampe thēselues against him, he would laugh them to scorne) then had wee neede to bee angrie with our sinnes, because they will else throwe vs downe into hell. If this word Wrath now will not moue vs, surely it would not moue vs to see the mountaine of smoke, as that of Sinai.

3 Grievous is the pain and untolerable is the the grief of hell fire, to be burned is the¹ most grievous and painful death that can be, it is terrible to every part of the body for a man to feel his blood and his fat to drop away from him. If we were threatened to hold our hand over a fire of wood, it would make us do any thing, yea things unlawful to avoid it without Gods especial grace assisting us: but alas this is nothing to hell fire, and yet we will not avoid sin, which will kindle a fire unquenchable, and our bodies shall never be consumed. Nebuchadnezzar had twenty seven provinces, Daniel 3. and yet but three men amongst all them refused to fall down to worship the golden image for fear of fire. But we need not go to Nebuchadnezzars time, we may look back but into Queen Mary's time and see many that for fear of fire did undergo things unlawful against their own conscience to their despair. And yet this was but a material fire, but of the Lords fire we must conceive otherwise. In Isaiah he saith, he will have it made with pitch to make it noisome to our members, and he will have a river of brimstone to feed it, that it shall not be drawn dry. If this be the reward of our neglect, why do we heap to our selves, an heap of chaff; If fire come, why will we be as stubble If this argument, this fiery argument will not cause us to fear, nothing will cause us. If (as it is said) in the school nothing moveth more than that, which hath both reason and sense, then surely fire may