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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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sorts man or woman ●● what complexion soever they are of what knowledge to discerne sinne of what degree in committing sin of what age authoritie wealth estate or condition soever they are It is good to mark that there be many who are more tro●●led for the vexation and disquietnes of their minde being distempered than for the vilenes and horriblenes of their ●●nne committed who are wounded more with feare of shame with feare of being madde or with the feare of running out of their wittes than with the conscience of sinne which thing if wee finde in them it is our parte to travell with them that they may make a lesse matter of the outward shame more conscience of the inward sinne neither must we herein forget to make a distinction betwene our speaches vsed to the humbled in the very time of their extreame agonie burning ague of their troubles and those speaches which we vse then the fit being past because the former requireth more consolation lesse exhortation than the other and the latter wold haue vs more abundant in admonishing and more sparing in comforting when wee may wisely admonish them to beware of sinne which so procureth their own woe in this brething time It is also expedient to exhort them that for some season vntill they shall finde greater power in regeneration they would tye themselues to some holy orders godly vowes that thereby they either may be furthered in mortifying some speciall sin which for that they could finde no power against it did most greue them or strenthened in some speciall grace the want whereof did also wounde them but before we launch deep into the sea of particular temptations and begin to sound the dangerous passages of natural corruptions and originall sinne the troublesome froth whereof doth almost ouerwhelme many poore Pilgrimes It shall be good to giue this caution that both in these and in the former trobles men would be stil admonished patientlie to bear with a wounded spirit albeit it falleth out so that they be somewhat pettish seeing the holy Ghost speaketh so favorably of them saying a wounded spirit who can bear it And surely our practise in other things by the law of equitie may vrge this at our handes For if men by the light of reason can see it to be a dutie convenient not frivolouslie to travell but meekly to suffer wisely to put vp vnadvised speaches of a man distempered in braine by reson of some burning ague or other vehement sicknes We may easily gather even by this rule of reason not so severely to sensure the impatient speaches of him who by reason of some parching feavour of the spirit is disquiered in mind and hath all the veines of his hart as it were in a spirituall agonie vexed wherefore both vnsavorie of godly wisedome vncharitable for want of Christian loue are their murmuring obtractations which say What is the godly man Is this hee that is trobled for his sins why see how pettish he is nothing can please him no body can satisfie him Consider O man if thou canst bear with a frail body that thou must much more bear with a fraill mind consider that this his pettishnes doth more wound him to the hart than any injurie thou couldest pearce him with and therefore seeing he afflicteth his own soule for it thou must not adde any thing to his afflictions and to exasperate his smart considder that it is a blessed thing mercifullie to bethink vs of the state of the needy and that to rub a fresh wound and to straine a bleeding sore is nothing else but that which Iobs friendes did to bring a newe torment where there is no neede of it If the wise Father rather doeth pittie than rebuke his child when by reason of sicknes the appetite is not easilie pleased so if wee purpose to do any good with an afflicted mind we must not be austere in reprehending every infirmitie but patient in considering of it as tender frailtie neither do I speake this to nourish pettishnes in any but wold haue them to labour for patience and to seeke for peace which though they finde not at the first yet by praier they must wait on the Lord and say Lord because there is mercie with thee that thou maiest bee feared I will wayte vpon thee as the eye of the servant waiteth vpon the eye of his master I will condemne my selfe of follie and say O my soule why art thou so heavy vvhy art thou so cast downe within me still trust in the Lord for he is thy helpe and thy salvation FINIS Heb. 13. 14 Genes 15. 13. 14. Deut. 29. 14. 15. Mal. 3. 16. Luk. 52. 35 Deut. 32. ● Col. 1. 27. Mat. 28. 18.