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,…

I could my self name a great number besides those above mentioned, but yourself can remember many more. Now the testimony of many faithful servants of Christ witnessing the grace and goodness of God towards you, must be as the voice of God himself, who is not as man that he should lie, or as the son of man that he should repent, or alter that which he hath once testified. And if Job do acknowledge, that the comfort of one faithful witness on the behalf of God, is enough to the erecting & cherishing of the heaviest mind, what can Satan say unto the testimony, not of two or three witnesses which the law only requireth, but unto the testimony of two or three score, the meanest and weakest whereof should be able to answer in your behalf unto all that the enemy is able to object against you? The second¹ thing I note, is that these have not come unto you by error or by chance, but by special address of Gods providence, as sent from the throne of grace to bind up your wound, and to minister comfort unto your conscience. The third, that these speak not their own² words, nor of themselves but are the faithful interpreters of the will of God, not indeed immediately from himself, but by viewing and esteeming of the work of God, and the fruits of his grace in those that are his. The fourth, that as they declare unto the afflicted,³ that favour of God towards them, which themselves are not able for the present to discern, so they commend them by prayer unto the Lord, who hath promised to hear & to grant their requests. The fifth, that for comfort in this case, we must pass out of our selves,⁴ in whom there is nothing that may ease our grief, and cast our eye and cogitation only upon Christ, in whom all fullness of salvation doth dwell, considering that this is one of the means whereby Satan doth most distress and anguish the afflicted souls, that he holdeth them in the cogitation of their sins and transgressions against God, and suffereth them not to see that length, breadth, height, and depth, and to know that love of Christ⁵ that passeth all knowledge, that they might be filled with all the fullness of God. The sixth,