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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.
Which thing if we find in them, it is our part to travel with them, that they make a less matter of the outward shame, & more conscience of the inward sin. Neither must we here forget to make a distinction between our speeches used to the humbled in the very time of their extreme agony & burning a gue of their troubles, & those speeches which we ⟨p. 60⟩use to them the fit being past; because the one and former requireth more consolation and less exhortation, the other and latter would have us more abundant in admonishing, and more sparing in comforting, when we may wisely admonish them to beware of sin, which so procured their own woe. In this breathing time, it is also expedient to exhort them, that for some season until they shall find greater power of regeneration, they would tie themselves to some holy orders, and godly vows, whereby they may either be furthered in mortifying some special sin; which for that they could find no power against it, did most grieve them, or strengthened in some special grace, the want whereof did also wound them.
Which thing if we find in them, it is our part to trauell with them, that they make a lesse matter of the outward shame, & more conscience of the inward sinne. Neyther must we here forget to make a distinctiō between our speeches vsed to the hūbled in the very time of their extream agony & burning a gue of their trobles, & those speches which we ⟨p. 60⟩vse to them the fit beeing past; because the one and former requireth more consolation and lesse exhortation, the other and latter would haue vs more aboundant in admonishing, and more sparing in comforting, when we may wisely admonish them to beware of sinne, which so procured their owne woe. In this breathing time, it is also expedient to exhort them, that for some season vntill they shall finde greater power of regeneration, they would tye themselues to some holy orders, and godly vowes, whereby they may either be furthered in mortifying some speciall sinne; which for that they coulde finde no power against it, did most grieue them, or strengthened in some special grace, the want wherof did also wound them.