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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.
But behold when at the strange conference of his comfortless friends, his mind began to be aghast, which was not so in all his former trial, when his conscience began to be troubled, when he saw the Lord fasten in him sharp arrows, and to set him up as a Butte to shoot at; when he thought God caused him to possess the sins of his youth, this glorious pattern of patience could not bear his grief: he was heavy, and now may commend, the Image of a wounded spirit, to all that come after. David, 1a man chosen according to the Lords own heart: Hezekiah, 2a pure worshipper of God, and careful restorer of true Religion; Jeremiah, 3the Prophet of the Lord, sanctified and ordained to that Office before he was formed in his mothers womb, were rare and singular in the graces and favour of God: yet when they felt this wound piercing them with grief of heart, they were as Sparrows mourning, as Cranes chattering, as as pelicans casting out fearful cries, they thought themselves as in the grave, they ⟨p. 7⟩wished to have dwelt solitary; they were as bottles parched in the smoke, they were as Doves mourning, not able without sighs and groans to utter their words, their hearts clove to the dust, and their tongues to the roof of their mouths.
But beholde when at the strange conference of his comfortlesse friendes, his minde beganne to be agast, which was not so in all his former tryall, when his conscience began to be troubled, when he sawe the Lord fasten in him sharpe arrowes, and to set him vp as a Butte to shoote at; when hee thought God caused him to possesse the sinnes of his youth, this glorious patterne of patience coulde not beare his griefe: he was heauye, and nowe may commende, the Image of a wounded spirite, to all that come after. Dauid, 1a man chosen according to the Lordes owne heart: Ezekiah, 2a pure worshipper of God, and carefull restorer of true Religion; Ieremiah,