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A02181	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.; Most sweete and assured comfort for all those that are afflicted in conscience, or troubled in minde	Greenham, Richard.; Greenham, Richard. Two learned and godly sermons.	1598 (1598)	STC 12322; ESTC S103418	97,808	214

raging is the strength of sin Neither for all this must we cease to sorrowe for our sins nor dispaire on the other side although our sorrow bee but small For if we be sorrowfull for the hardnes of our hearts if we can be grieued for that we are no more grieued for our sins if we can but sigh and groone because we feele our iniquities it is so much a greater comfort vnto vs as it is a greater testimony that our heartes are not altogether hardened so that if we feele ●orrowe indeede although wee weepe not yet we may gather comfort considering that this sorrow is for sinne with a loue and hunger after righteousnes yea if our assaults be distrust pride arrogancy ambition enuie concupiscence as who●e as the fyre in the furnace all our daies and though Sathan layeth out oyle in great measure out of measure that it is the wonderfull mercy of the Lorde that we stand and though our prayers be dull and full of wearisomenes if the striuing and strayning of our selues to goodnesse be so hard that we knowe not whether we striue for feare of punishment or for loue of so good a Father yet if we feele this in our selues that we would faine loue the Lord and be better and beeing wearied and tyred with our sinnes long gladly to enioye the peace of righteousnes and desire to please God in a simple obedience of faith then let vs comfort our selues there is no time to late to repent in For he commeth quickly to Christ although in the hou●e of death that commeth willingly and in a desire of a better life howsoeuer sinne and Sathan at that time would especially perswade him For as the humming Bee hauing lost her sting in an other doth still notwithstanding make a fearfull and grieuous noyse by her often buzzing about vs but is nothing able to hurt vs so sin death hauing lost their stings in Christ Iesus do not cease at all euen in the height of the parching heat of our consciences to make a murmuring and with furious stormes of temptations to terrifie vs and our consciences albeit they can neuer sting vs. Wherfore if Sathan charge our consciences with sin if we can feele the things a little before mentioned in our consciences let vs bid him not tell vs what we haue beene but what we woulde be For such we are by imputation as we be in affection and he is now no sinner who for the loue he beareth to righteousnes would be no sinner Such as we be in desire and purpose such we be in reckoning and account with God who giueth that true desire and holy purpose to none but to his children whom he iustifieth Neyther vndoubtedly can the giltines of sinne breake the peace of our conscience seeing it is the worke of an other who hath commended vs as righteous before God and saued vs. It must indeed be confessed that our owne works wil do nothing in the matter of iustification which from Christ in Christ is freely giuen vnto vs it must be granted that in our selues we are weaker then that we can resist the least sinne so farre of is it that we can encounter with the law sinne death hell and Sathan and yet in Christ we are more then conquerers ouer them all When the law accuseth thee because thou hast not obserued it send it to Christ say there is a man that hath fulfilled the law to him I cleaue he hath fulfilled it for me and hath giuen the fulfilling of it vnto mee I haue nothing to do with thee I haue another law which striketh thee down euen the law of liberty which through Christ hath set me free For my conscience which henceforth serueth the law of grace is a glorious prince to triumph ouer thee If sin come and would haue thee by the throat send it to Christ say as much as thou maist do against him so much right thou shalt haue against me For I am in him he in me wherfore O sin I am righteous through my Christ which is a condemning sin to condemne thee which art a condemned sinner If death creepe vpon thee attempt to deuoure thee say vnto it Christ hath ouercome thee opened to me the gates of euerlasting life thou wouldest haue killed him with the sting of sin but the same being of no force thy purpose O death hath failed and he being my life is become thy death If Sathan sommon thee to answer for thy debts send him also to Christ and say that the wife is not suable but the husband enter thine action against Christ mine husband and he will make thee a sufficient answere who then shall condemne vs or what iudge shall daunt vs syth God is our iudge and accquited vs and Christ was condemned iustifieth vs he is our iudge that willeth not the death of a sinner he is our man of law who to excuse vs suffered himselfe to be accused for vs. O gluttonous hell where is thy defence O cruell sin where is thy tyrannous power O rauening death where is thy bloody sting O roaring Lion why doest thou freete and foame Christ my lawe fighteth against thee O lawe and is my liberty Sinne against thee O sinne and is my righteousnes Christ against thee O diuell and is my sauiour Death against thee O death is my life Thou diddest desire to paue my way to the burning lake of damned soules but contrarie to thy will thou art constrained to lift vp the ladder wherby I must ascend into the new Ierusalem Wherfore if we shal finde our selues forsaken of God so as we perceiue nothing but matter of dispaire let vs still hold our owne in the certainty of our faith stay our selues sith Christ is giuen vs of God that he might extinguish sin triumph ouer the law vanquish death ouercome the diuell and destroy hell for our onely comfort and consolation But peraduenture some will say my faith is weake and colde and my conscience is as a ●laming lampe and burning furnace I feare the Lorde will still pursue mee with his wrathfull indignation Thou doest well to feare but feare and sinne not For feare which subdueth the securitie of the flesh is in all most requisite in that the weaker we are in our selues the stronger we are in God But that feare is dangerous which hindereth the certainty of faith in that it incourageth our enemy more fearcely to set vpō vs when we comming into the campe will cast away our armour especially which should defend vs. Comfort thy selfe the Lord will not quench the smoking flaxe nor breake the brused reede he looketh not on the quantitie but on the qualitie of our faith For as a good mother doth not reiect hir childe because through some infirmitie it is weake feeble and not able to go alone but rather doth pitie and supporte it least peraduenture it should fal recompenseth that with more motherly affection

daily renued This repentance is figured in baptisme both in that we must die to sin and bury it and also that we must rise againe to newnes of life for a man cannot die to sin but by the vertue of Christ his death neyther can he rise to righteousnes without the power of his resurrection Now we must know that as our sinnes are forgiuen so we must also receiue Gods spirit If God promiseth mercy to our children much more to vs if we beleue and receiue his promises if to them which are a farre of much more to them that are neare And yet though we haue been baptised an hundred yeares and haue not receiued the holy Ghost we may die in our sinnes Some vnderstand by the gift of the holy Ghost the graces of God bestowed on the Apostles but in my iudgement their opinion is not sound because that was a particular thing giuen only to them of that time this promise is generall and respectes all posterities We are then to note that repentance is a continuall course of sorrowe and if we haue this in trueth then may we boldly seeke for comfort out of Gods wo●d and from his ministers and looke what comfort they giue vs on earth the same shal be sealed also in heauen Wherefore as it is requisite continually to till the ground if we will haue fruite and daily to eate if we will liue so in spirituall things we must be humbled with continuall sorrow that we may be refreshed with daily comfort in Christ in whose name let vs pray Our father c. FINIS Certaine wise and graue Counsels and Answers made by the same author of the former argument VNto one that was much tempted with vnbeliefe he gaue this counsell When the temptation commeth either fall downe in prayer say Lord thou makest me to possesse the sinnes of my youth and this temptation is of very equity howbeit O Lorde grant I may by wisedome herein make this temptation an holy instruction and suffer me to possesse my soule in patience Oh turne this to thy glory and my saluation I see and confesse what hath beene in mee a long time by that which now sheweth it selfe in me and that thy grace hath hitherto kept vnder this corrupt●on yet Lord I beleeue yet Lord I will beleue helpe Lord my vnbeliefe Thy name be praised for this seale of thy loue and pledge of thy spirit that in this vnbeleefe I am grieued as in my beliefe I am wont to be comforted And though my olde and secret sinnes deserue that I should not onely be giuen ouer to infidelity but also that it should be in mee without griefe and remorse yet Lord forgiue my sinnes newe and olde forgiue my vnthank●ulnes Lord increase my faith and grant good father that when thou shalt restore to mee the gifte of grace againe that I may vse it in feare and shew it by fruites Or if this doe not preuaile giue your selfe with all humblenes to read the word of God especially his promises and be still attending vpon the meanes waiting when the Lord shall inlarge your hearte Or if this do not helpe goe to some faith full brother confesse your state to him acknowledg your weaknes to him and be not ashamed to giue God the glory by shaming your selfe and opening your corruption to him that so hee may pray for you whose praier according to the promise of God made to his holy ordināce herein Iames. 5. vndoubtedly shall be heard in the appointed time Thus hauing praied by your selfe and with another and vsed the meanes of reading for your recouery though you haue not present release yet in meeknes of mind patience of your spirite go to your calling knowing that your praiers and the word of God being as seede must haue some time betweene the sowing of them and the reaping of the increase and fruite of them Aboue all reason not with your temptations dispute not with the Deuill as though you coulde preuaile of your selfe And as I would not you should dispute with your temptation so I would not you should despise it For in both are extremities If you take it too much to heart or maruell how you should ouercome such a temptation it will make you dull or desperate If you account of it to little and maruell how such thinges should come into your head which was not wont to be so it will make you not to striue and you shall be swallowed vp before you be aware If you account of it too fearefully Sathan will oppresse you before you beginne to fight If you account of it too lightly the deuill needs not to wrestle with you you will ouerthrow your ●elfe Therefore feare in respect of your selfe fight boldly in Christ tremble at your owne corruption but rest and trust in Christ your saluation If still you are tempted and no body by you write your temptation and offer it to God by prayer and promise to him that you will aske counsell of his worde at the mouth of his minister when he shall giue you iust occasion If all this helpe not comfort your selfe with this pledge of election that you are ioyed when you feele your beliefe and that you are grieued least you shoulde displease God by your vnbeliefe and know that as there is a viciss●tude of the meanes of saluation which you must vse so there is also a vicissitude of temptations wherof this is one agianst which you must striue 2 Vnto one that was tempted with worldly shame and thought the distemperature of his minde and bodie proceeded thereof he saide on this sorte Fist know that Sathan hath not an absolute power but a power by permission to try vs against which we must arme our selues by faith which will assure vs that eyther the Lorde will mitigate our temptation if our power and patience be not great or else if he enlarge the tryall he wil increase our strength and retch it out according to the proportion of our temptation Wee must also pray that the Lord giue not out that measure of leaue to the diuell which we giue out to sinne to worke rebellion in vs against his maiesty but that he would rather make Sathan a Surgeon to shew vs our sinnes then a Sregeant to confound vs for our sinnes It is the pollicie of the aduersary to perswade many that the weaknes of their body and feeblenes of their braine proceedeth of their temptations when indeed it commeth of the vnstaidnes of their mindes wandering too much after the motions of the diuell in that they not resting on the word nor depending on Christ nor contenting thēselues to be tryed nor cōforting themselues by meditatiō attend to much cōfor to often with the diuels illusions and temptations and so they comeplayne of the effectes and not of the causes of their temptations beeing more grieued for their present sufferinges then for their sinnes past The roote of this worldly shame is

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 Imprinted at London by Richard Bradocke for Robert Dexter and are to be solde at the signe of the Brasen Serpent in Paules Churchyard 1598. To the right worshipfull S. Drue Drurie Knight H. C. wisheth increase of all heauenlie vertues IT hath been the cōtinual practise Right worshipfull of the most faithfull stewards dispencers of the misteries of God not only to spende the time of their pilgrimage inplanting and watering those partes of Gods vineyarde wherewithall it hath pleased him to charge them for the present but also as much as in them lay to helpe and set forward the growth of them euen vnto the day of their perfection Amongst many other our present author M. Richard Greenham may bet set with the forwardest in this ranke A man into whose praises if I should enter I should eyther be iniurious to his desert or tedious especially vnto you in whose memory he doth yet most liuely remaine But amongst many excellent gifts which were so plentyfully powred out vpon this man of God not any one did more shine either to the glory of God or his cōmendation amōgst men then that especial gift he had to the raising vp of the cōsciences of those who frō●he sense of their infirmitieswere discouraged cast down And left this extraordinary gift should with his d●cease die in the graue with him he left in writing vnto vs among many things somthing also of that argument which after his death with more speed then diligēce was sent vnto the presse The same now being brought vnto me to be prepared for the second impression the cōmon good of those who frō these holy labours might raise vnto them selues a souerayne cōfort for their oppressed consciences as also the reuerent regard I had vnto the blessed memory of the deceased Author incouraged or rather inforced me to looke more carefully vnto it and finding the former edition very defectiue to indeauour the correction of it which is thus as you see obtained the volume thus far increased by such written coppies of the like argumēt as were ministred vnto me All which I am imboldened to present vnto your W. fauour protection partly for the vnfained loue you bare vnto the roote frō whence they sprang partly also for that interest you had in them by the former dedication May it please your worship therfore to accept thē as the poore remainder of that hope which in the Authors life time promised more vnto vs then the Lorde hath thougt vs worthy to enioy Thus cōmending your W. and yours to the tuition of the almighty I humbly take my leaue Your worships in all duty to commande H. C. To the Reader OVR life saith the Apostle is a warfare euery day we are more or lesse to incoūter with our aduersary And therfore is the Church of God vpō earth called Militant because the mēbers therof are prest soldgiers stāding continually vpon their garde knowinge that their enemy is an olde wily Serpent and a fierce rauenous Lion cōtinually seeking whom he may deuoure But amongst many snares he hath laide to intrappe the soule of man eyther presuming too much of himselfe or derogating too much from the graces of the spiritt in him this is not the meanest that he laboureth to deuide the kingdome against it selfe and to vse men as his instrumentes for their owne destruction For well he knowes that where cumming in his owne likenes he should seeme odious and be valiently resisted there masked vnder a vayle of humilitie he may more secretly incroch vpō the fearful spirit if the Lord doth not put the bitt into his mouth to curbe him with he may at length display his banners in the heart But we haue a valiant leader let vs sticke vnto him euen Iesus Christ the righteous who is a Serpent also lift vp in the wildernes to cure all whose hearts are scorched with the venemous heat of the firie serpent who is a Lion of the Tribe of Iuda ●●mightie prince and the king of peace who shall subdue all thinges vnder him that he may be all in all I might here enter into a large discourse but in this argumēt this present booke is so copious as I doubt gentle Reader whether thou shalt finde any want much lesse of that which I am able to afforde thee Onely it had beene to be wished the Author of these Treatises had himselfe suruiued to the publishing of them that the same might haue come more full perfect into thy handes But since it hath pleased the Lord for cause best knowne vnto himselfe to bereaue his Church in this land of so excellēt a piller there remaneth nothing for vs but to submit ourselues vnto his prouidence to take vp that cōplaint of Elisha for Elias when he was takē frō him into heauen My Father my Father the Charet of Israell the horsemen therof But to returne vnto our selues thou art to be intreated courteous reader to take in good part these few things at this time to make thine vse of them till some other the only true coppies wherof are yet in the hands of his friends may be obtained of them Amongst which there are many things of diuers argumēts worthy thy knowledge of good profit vnto the direction of a Christian life Of which I haue thought good to set down vnto thee a briefe catolog that thou maist know that as our Authors labours in the ministery of the gospell were exceeding great in that part of the Church which was cōmitted vnto him so as he might he was not vnmindfull of posterity but carefull to leaue a remembrance of himselfe in some profitable instructions for those that should come after Farewell Thine in the Lord. H. C. 1 A large Treatise of the Sabboth 2 A Catechisme 3 A Treatise of contract 4 Of the resurrection of the dead 5 Of the last iudgement 6 Of zeale 7 Of humlity and honour 8 Of anger 9 Of murmuring 10 Of a good name 11 Of lying 12 Of the necessity of the word preached 13 Of keeping the heart aboue all thinges 14 Of the kingdome of heauen compared vnto a pearle 15 Of the comming of the holy Ghost 16 Of reioycing in the Crosse of Christ. 17 A great number of graue and wise counsels and answers gathered by Master Iohn Hopkins and others that attended him for that purpose An Epigrame to the Reader THE thirstie soule that fainteth in the way Or hunger-bit for heauenly foode doth long The wearied Hart that panteth all she way Oppressed with feares home-bread griefs among The blinded eye that hunt's the shining ray Or minde enthralde through Satans wily wrong Let hither fare for comfort in their neede For smothered flames a