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,…

This is manifest, in that they leave not every sin, as true repentance doth, without all exception or dispensation, but only those bloody faced sins, which civill discipline censureth with shame and sufferings, as murder, treason, adultery and theft, making no bones to commit sins as grievous before God, though not so punishable before men, as are swearing, profaning of the Sabbath, lying, drunkenness, & such like, which sins if they were worthy of imprisonment by law, either men must change their accustomed course, or all the prisons in the realm would not be able to receive the offendants. Such men learn the common statutes and penal laws of the land; the laws of the Lord, the statutes of the highest they will learn hereafter. If they had a conscience of sin, then it should be in universal, not in particular, because one sin is as grievous to the Lord as another, and no sin must have a placard before his presence. Other will leave sin, because they have been in service so long, and spent their body so much in sin, that now (not that their action is¹ lamed, but because their ability is gone) they for fear of some sickness will leave it, but if they might run through a new body they would run through their old course again. Others have consumed all to feed and clothe sin, and therefore now because their purse constraineth them, not because the law commandeth them, or the curse feareth them, they count it for husbandry to stay a while. Others being somewhat politic, thinking it good to get some profit, that may give longer life to pleasure hereafter, for a while bridle in their wantonness, whiles they have gotten some sure hold of their inheritance, and after, so soon as they have brought with sorrow their fathers old age to the grave, recompense the devil with their hot pursuit of sin, much more than they lost in their former sparing of sin. Others when either for deadness of nature, or want of ability, or fear of man they dare not, or cannot commit sin in their own persons, yet they draw over as much pleasure as men in their case may do, by commending and chronicling of their own sins past, or by laughing in their sleeves at the artificial sinning of some other present. They can laugh at sin heartily, whereby they show they cannot mourn for sin heartily:

This is manifest, in that they leaue not euery sinne, as true repentance doth, without all exception or dispensation, but onely those bloodie faced sinnes, which ciuill discipline censureth with shame and suffrings, as murther, treason, adulterie and theft, making no bones to commit sins as grieuous before God, though not so punishable before men, as are swearing, prophaning of the Sabbath, lying, drunkennes, & such like, which sinnes if they were worthy of imprisonment by law, either men must change their accustomed course, or all the prisons in the realme would not be able to receiue the offendāts. Such men learne the common statutes and penall lawes of the land; the lawes of the Lord, the statutes of the highest they will learne hereafter. If they had a conscience of sin, then it should be in vniuersall, not in particular, because one sinne is as grieuous to the Lord as another, and no sin must haue a placard before his presence. Other will leaue sinne, because they haue beene in seruice so long, and spent their body so much in sinne, that now (not that their action is