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,…

9 There are divers kinds of folly. Solomon saith, A wise man is not a stranger in the¹ congregation of the Lord: so then this is a foolishness, not to come to the congregation of Gods people. In Pauls time it was said, be not foolish but redeem the time: th•• then is² also folly to loose time. In the time of Moses and Jethro, to give authority and titles in the³ highest degrees to them that deserve them not, by Jethroes judgement was folly, and we⁴ do in these times the very same. Well, all these are fools which can do us no harm, those that are alive are no fools, so long as they can do hurt. And such as help us to preferment, we call them wise whatsoever we think of them: there are two kinds of fools, one a sot for ignorance, or a crazed fool, as he that hath a disease only. There is another fool, and he hath the carcass of folly, and he may well be called the child of folly: This is stinking folly, and brutish folly. Chrysostom faith, Better to be found a beast than to become like a beast, for the first is of nature, the last is of sin. If it be foolishness to be ignorant⁵ of that we should do, what great folly is it to know what we should do, and do it not? And who would think such folly could fall into any man, that he should know it to be folly, and confess i•, and yet do it?

9 There are diuers kindes of follie. Salomon saith, A wise man is not a stranger in the¹ congregation of the Lord: so then this is a foolishnes, not to come to the congregation of Gods people. In Paules time it was said, bee not foolish but redeeme the time: th•• then is²