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 John saith, the Spirit bloweth where it listeth, so also as much as it listeth, sometime¹ breathing softly like the cool air, and sometime like the whirl-wind: for man is full of wandering thoughts, and imaginations, especially when he heareth the word: but nothing is more dangerous than the young mans heart, which is in all places of the world at once, if you speak not what he thinketh, he doth not attend, if he be not astonished: and for this cause doth the holy Ghost often offer galling concessions, and pinching permissions, as Eccl. 10. God seemeth in such speeches at the first to favour sin. But as we lift up a thing² high, to drive it the harder, so God useth such speeches to throw them to eternal destruction, to break them to fitters. Yea we would think the Lord to be a proctor of evil, if he³ should not sometimes be very vehement. The bitterest kind of denial is to bid us go, yet so ••ine would God work on our heart, that he useth such vehemency.⁴

2 Iohn saith, the Spirit bloweth where it listeth, so also as much as it listeth, sometime¹ breathing softly like the coole ayre, and sometime like the whirle-winde: for man is full of wandring thoughts, and imaginations, especially when he heareth the word: but nothing is more dangerous than the yong mans heart, which is in all places of the world at once, if you speake not what he thinketh, he doth not attend, if hee be not astonished: and for this cause doth the holy Ghost often offer galling concessions, and pinching permissions, as Eccl. 10. God seemeth in such speeches at the first to fauour sinne. But as we lift vp a thing² high, to driue it the harder, so God vseth such speeches to throw them to eternal destruction, to breake them to fitters. Yea we would thinke the Lord to be a proctor of euill, if hee