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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
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.
10 He said to one troubled in mind, for a secret and small sin: I do not so much ⟨p. 203⟩fear this sin in you, as the policy of Satan by it, either in that he will not stick to show you the lest sins & hide from you the greater; or else by the quick sight of your secret & small sins, to cast upon you an open & gross sin of vain glory and privy pride.
10 He saide to one troubled in minde, for a secret and small sinne: I doe not so much ⟨p. 203⟩feare this sinne in you, as the pollicie of Sathan by it, either in that he will not sticke to shewe you the leste sinnes & hide from you the greater; or else by the quick sight of your secret & smal sins, to cast vpon you an open & grosse sin of vaine glorie and priuie pride.
11 It is a most certain thing in Gods children, that the more their afflictions grow, the more their faith groweth: the more Satan striveth to draw them from God, the more they draw near to •od; although indeed in feeling, they cannot see so much.
11 It is a most certaine thi•ge in Gods children, that the more their afflictions growe, the more their faith groweth: the more Sathan striueth to draw them from God, the more they draw neere to •od; although indeede in feeling, they cannot see so much.