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,…

5 They that mock long at Gods judgements, will mock in the end and be mocked: wherefore it is good to pray for inward reverence, before God sendeth outward vengeance. When the Lord accuseth and judgeth us to show himself just and innocent, he will have none other to witness against us than the mountains, or the heavens and the earth: he will come to no court on earth but to his creatures, and his servants have used the¹ same proceeding, as Moses calleth heaven and earth to witness, nay we are to call to witness the stones in the wall, the timber of the house, that they may give their voices on our sides, that we have told them their sins, and that we have spoken to their consciences,² and then the very beams of the Church and stones of the wall shall be witness of this controversy. So that though men would bear one with another, yet the mountains, the heaven, and the earth shall give up their voice, that God hath not come suddenly upon us, but that he forewarned us. It were a great matter if a man should be judge in his own cause, yet the Lord so rules the matter, as that he will condemn none, but such as first shall see their just condemnation. We shall have all things laid plain and orderly before us, as it is Psalm 50 so that we shall be driven to confess Gods plea to be just against us: for howsoever men can daub and deceive their own conscience, howsoever they can smother and choke their own sins and delude men; yet in the day of wrath, the sealed book, the sealed book shall be opened, and the recorder in our own conscience shall give sentence unto it, and then the Lord shall win and recover his action at our hands, and we shall yield that he is just.

5 They that mocke long at Gods iudgements, will mocke in the end and be mocked: wherefore it is good to pray for inward reuerence, before God sendeth outward vengeance. When the Lord accuseth and iudgeth vs to shew himselfe iust and innocent, he will haue none other to witnesse against vs than the mountaines, or the heauens and the earth: he will come to no court on earth but to his creatures, and his seruants haue vsed the¹ same proceeding, as Moses calleth heauen and earth to witnesse, nay we are to call to witnesse the stones in the wal, the timber of the house, that they may giue their voyces on our sides, that we haue told them their sinnes, and that we haue spoken to their consciences,