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Paramythion two treatises of the comforting of an afflicted conscience, written by M. Richard Greenham, with certain epistles of the same argument. Hereunto are added two sermons, with certain grave and wise counsels and answers of the same author and argument.Paramythion tvvo treatises of the comforting of an afflicted conscience, written by M. Richard Greenham, with certaine epistles of the same argument. Heereunto are added two sermons, with certaine graue and wise counsells and answeres of the same author and argument.
London: printed by Richard Bradocke for Robert Dexter, 1598
A MOST SWEET Comfort for an afflicted Conscience.A MOST SVVEET Comfort for an afflicted Conscience.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A MOST SWEET Comfort for an afflicted Conscience.
A MOST SVVEET Comfort for an afflicted Conscience.
It is thus written, Proverb•. 18.14. The Spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity: But a wounded Spirit who can bear it?
It is thus written, Prouerb•. 18.14. The Spirit of a man will sustaine his infirmitie: But a wounded Spirite who can beare it?
This Scripture is not only worthy to be graven in steel with the pen of an Adamant, and to be written in letters of gold; but also to be laid up registered by the finger of God his spirit in the tables of our hearts. Which sentence briefly speaketh thus much unto us, that what trouble befalleth a man (his mind being unappalled) he will indifferently bear it out; but if the spirit ⟨p. 2⟩of a man be once troubled and dismayed, he cannot tell how to be delivered. And no marvel; for if the mind of man be the fountain of consolation, which ministereth comfort unto him in all other troubles; if that become comfortless, what shall comfort it? If it be void of help, when shall it be helped? If the eye which is the light of the body be darkness, how great is that darkness? If the salt which •avoreth all things be unsavoury, for what is it good? If the mind which sustaineth all troubles be troubled, how intolerable is that trouble? To show this the better, I will first declare how great a punishment of God this wound of conscience is: Secondly I will teach how this trouble of mind may be prevented and avoided: Lastly I will set down how Gods children falling in some measure into this affliction of spirit, may be recovered out of it.