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 walking in the ways of our own hart and of the lust of our eyes are the two heads of all wickedness, our inward motions, and our outward¹ occasions must both breed in us a careful conscience and wariness. In the Proverbs, Prophets, & Apostles we are bidden to restrain our heart and to make a covenant with our eyes and the outward senses.² These things are confessed daily, and amended slowly, whereof followeth that transgression of the law and that universal sickness, that we daily confess, there is no health in us, which all cometh from the ways of our own hearts. This word walking hath relation unto an allegory. For imagine we have here no natural city, Heb. 11. as we have not indeed, our country being Paradise, from which³ Adam fell by transgression, and we being here as banished, as Augustine calleth us, have received a new title in Christ, who was content to set over his own right by purchase unto us. Whereupon it is presupposed, that we have the natural affection, which every man hath to his own country, thorough a wilderness, wherein are many ways brought shortly to these two: of the one David speaketh Psal. 119. I will run the way of thy commandments; and this is the right way, we may well run in it. The second way is the way of our own hearts; and this is the evil way, whether it be by the right hand in sinning outwardly and in sight, or in sinning secretly, on the left hand. If we mean to come to Paradise,⁴ we must leave this way and walk the other way, for this will lead us to judgement. Eccle. 11. 9. In this way are three things to be considered, alluding to the peregrination ⟨p. 704⟩of the Israelites through the wilderness. The first is the little light shining in a dark place,⁵