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A72208 A fruitful and Godly sermon containing necessary and profitable doctrine, for the reformation of our sinfull and wicked liues, but especially for the comfort of a troubled conscience in all distresses. By M. Richard Greenham pastor of Drayton. Greenham, Richard. 1595 (1595) STC 12319; ESTC S124961 28,758 90

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A FRVITFVL AND GODLY SERMON CONTAINING NEcessary and profitable doctrine for the reformation of our sinfull and wicked liues but especially for the comfort of a troubled Conscience in all distresses By M. Richard Greenham Pastor of DRAYTON EDINBVRGH PRINTED BY RObert Walde-graue Printer to the Kings Majestie An. 1595. Cum Priuilegio Regio TO THE VERTVOVS AND GODLY MATRON SARA SPE●R Grace mercie and peace in Christ Iesus Amen DEare Sister you knowe this World is not your home but a Pilgrimage and a place wherein God trieth his children And I doubt not but you haue learned howe to make right vse and profit of the Lord his merciful chastisements For the Lord vseth many waies and meanes for the triall of his I knowe You haue heard of the patience of IOB as saith the Apostle IAMES and you haue seene in the end how that God is merciful patient and long suffering euen so say I vnto you that you shall receiue accordingly if so be you be patient that is if you feare God set his vvord before your eies and serue him thereafter and if hee lay his crosse on you beare it with patience the which you shall do when you considder it not according to the present sense but according to the end Heb. 12. And I doubt not but you are of the number of them which are daily dying to themselues and this sinfull world Ye are one of them that lookes for a citie whose builder and maker is God Ye are one of them that knowes your selfe and your being to be in this earth but as a Pilgrime and stranger for heere yee haue no byding place Yee are one of them which haue made a Covenant with God to forsake your selfe and this sinfull World Yee are one of them vvho say Nay The Lord hath all things written in his memoriall book for such as feare him remember his Name Yee are one of them vvhich haue their Loynes girded about and their lights burning in their hands Like vnto servants that wayte vpon their Lordes comming Yea and I am certainlie perswaded that you and your godly Brethren and Sister are of the number of them vvho haue the Lord for their portion which haue their hope in heaven vvhose leader is Christ Iesus the sonne of God and governour of Heaven and Earth vnto him is given all power he is God almightie with the Father and the holy Ghost praise vvorthie for euermore Now deare sister I partly knowing the present estate of your troubled perplexed minde in regard of the want of your greatest outwarde comfort I thoght it good to present you with this sweet Sermon made by that godly-learned zealous Pastor of Christs Church M. RICHARD GREENHAM which by Gods providence came vnto my handes containing a comfort for a troubled conscience he being throgh the mercy of God a man greatly exercised therewith and therfore taught the same through his owne experience hoping through the working of Gods holy spirit it shal also minister comfort vnto your trobled mind Therfore my dear sister to conclude I beseech you to be instāt with our merciful God by harty praier for the spirit of wisdome knowledge humblenes meeknes sobriety repentance which euen the best of Gods Children haue great neede of because our sins continuallie prouokes the Lord our God to be angrie with vs but let vs beare his fatherly corrections acknowledge our faults with bitter tears and sorrowfull sighes not doubting but so hee will be mercifull vnto vs in Christ To whome with the Father and the holy spirit be all glory honour praise and everlasting thanks for euermore Amen Your wel-willer in the Lord Christ R. W. A SVVEET AND COMFORTABLE SERMON FOR A TROVbled Conscience PROV 18. 14. The spirit of a man will sustaine his infirmitie but a wounded spirit vvho canne beare it THIS Scripture is not onely woorthie to be grauen in steele with the point of an Adamant and in letters of golde but also to bee written and registred by the finger of Gods spirit in the tables of the hearte which sentence brieflie speaketh thus much vnto vs that what trouble soever befalleth a man his mind vnapalled he will indifferently beare it out But if the spirite of a man be once troubled and dismaied he cannot tell how to be deliuered And no marvell for if the minde of man be that fountaine of comforte which ministers comfort to him in all other troubles and if it become comfortlesse what shall comfort it if it be voide of help where shall 〈◊〉 be helped If the eye which is the light of the bodie be darknes how great is that darknes If the salt which sauoreth all things be vnsauorie for what is it good If the minde which sustaineth all troubles be troubled how intollerable is that trouble To shewe this the better wee will first declare howe great a punishment of God this wounde of Conscience is Secondly we will teach how this trouble of mind may be avoided Lastly we will set downe how Gods children falling in some measure into this affliction of spirit may be recouered out of it For the first the griefe of this maladie is seene either by some due consideration of the persones that haue felt it or by some wise comparison made betweene this griefe of minde and other outward griefes incident to a man The persons in whome we may consider this wounde of spirite are either meerlie naturall men or such as be renewed by the spirite of God the men meerly naturall are either the heathen such as never knewe God in Christ or carnall professors such as haue not protested Christianitie aright If we looke among the Heathen howe many of them haue willingly gone vnder povertie and haue bene content to vnburden themselues of all worldly tresures how haue some of them whilest their minds were vnapalled suffered imprisonment exile and extreame tortures of bodie rather than they woulde betraye their Cuntries c. How many of them haue devoured many injuries and born outward troubles with some ease and with no resistance whilest their minds were at libertie and yet look not to the ●●●nest but to the best and most excellent men among them even their wise Philosophers sweet Oratours and exquisite Poets who in bearing and forbearing they thought the chiefest point of vertue to consist and yet yee shall see when once some great distresse of mind did wound them some would make an end of it by preparing a cup of deadlie poyson some would violently and voluntarilie run on their enemies pykes some would throwe downe themselues from high mountaines some woulde not stick to stabbe most monstrouslie their own bodies with daggers or such like instruments of death All which men woulde seeme to haue great courage in sustaining many harmes so long as their minds were not ouer maistered but when that devine and supreame essence which they acknowledged did by his power crosse and ouerturne