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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
The Second Sermon preached by M Richard Greenham.The Seconde Sermon preached by M Richard Greenham.
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.
he spend all his days without any evil, yet his darkness will be greater then the light, his sorrow greater then his pleasure, his loss greater then his gain, his trouble greater then his vanity, in ⟨p. 184⟩hell. Let us not then so carnally shake off this godly sorrow, For the word will send us often an unquiet spirit, that we may seek to be quiet in Christ. To examine our selves herein. Have we heard the word of God? were we pricked by it? then have we profited, have we not been pricked thereby? then as yet are we not a sacrifice for the Lord. For, as was said before, Christ comforteth them that are troubled, he helpeth them that doubt, he caseth them, which are in distress, he setteth their feet in the way of peace and gladness, that have long been in darkness and sorrow. Have ye not been sorrowful, & will ye learn a salve for this sore? be sorrowful, that ye were not sorrowful, be pricked in your hearts, because you were not more pricked. Have we heard the word? Let us examine our selves? if our knowledge be the better; If our affections be the holier; As having heard the exposition of the law of God; do we fear God? do we know how to love God? do we pray to God? do we worship God in our souls, & in our bodies more carefully & in greater conscience than we have don heretofore? Are we not now as profane & careless still in giving the right worship to the true God, as before we were to superstitious, in serving Angels, Saints & other false Gods; nether sorrowing for our idolatry, nor caring for true religion? have we not blasphemed, & profaned the name ⟨p. 185⟩of god in unreverent hearing his word, in unprofitable talking of his works & abusing his own majesty with swearing and cursing as much as we ever did before? Have we kept holy the sabbath? or have we not profaned it, by open neglect of the word, by playing, sporting, drinking, and other vanities do we not still send forth our servants to dispatch our business on that day, as if it were the market day, when they may do such things most lawfully? Are not parents, house-holders, and governors, as slack in provoking obedience; and children, servants and subjects, as flow in yielding obedience as ever they were? parents in the mean time, not seeing that children therefore rebel against them, because they rebel against God;
hee spende all his daies without any euill, yet his darknes wilbe greater then the light, his sorrowe greater then his pleasure, his losse greater then his gaine, his trouble greater then his vanitie, in