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,…

2 It is the prosperity of all true repenting sinners, to fall with humility, to rise with dignity,¹ and as the more grievously they have offended, so the more humbly they will crave to be accepted; the higher the dignity is from which they are fallen, the lower is the place whereunto they would be received. And he knoweth best what a godly thing it is to rise,² that •ightly knoweth what a foul thing it is to fall. For if a man be down, if Satan ••ath assaulted him, if sin hath wounded him, if his own flesh hath betrayed him, so that he lieth stricken with Satan, with sin, and with himself, against himself: then show me³ whether it be not a godly thing that the same man in number, though not in nature, the same in person, though not in property: for a new substance is not created, but the sa•e being fallen is restored, falling a natural man should rise a spiritual man, not to be that ••e was, and to be that which he was not: neither must any man so far flatter himself, that h•e should think himself at any time to rise so far, as that he may cast off sin as an upper garment, to lay it aside until he list to use it. For the seed of the woman having bruised the Serpents head, the sword of the spirit having hamstringed Satan: the great Captain CHRIST JESUS, having spoiled the strong man of his furniture, it cannot be but many broils and bickerings will be behind, and some blows will be in the controversy, so long⁴ as we be in this life.

2 It is the prosperitie of all true repenting sinners, to fall with humility, to rise with dignitie,¹ and as the more grieuously they haue offended, so the more humbly they will craue to be accepted; the higher the dignitie is from which they are fallen, the lower is the place whereunto they would be receiued. And hee knoweth best what a godly thing it is to rise,