A02178:1788
The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…
The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham, minister and preacher of the Word of God collected into one volume: revised, corrected, and published, for the further building of all such as love the truth, and desire to know the power of godliness. By H.H.The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham, minister and preacher of the Word of God collected into one volume: reuised, corrected, and published, for the further building of all such as loue the truth, and desire to know the power of godlinesse. By H.H.
London: printed by Thomas Snodham and Thomas Creede for William Welby, 1612London: printed by Thomas Snodham and Thomas Creede for VVilliam VVelby, 1612
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Reading rather establisheth than derogateth from preaching▪ for none can be profitable hearers of preaching, that have not been trained up in reading the Scriptures, or hearing them read. Many inconveniences come from the neglect of reading, as that the people cannot tell when a sentence is alleged out of the Canonical Scriptures, when out of the Apocrypha, when out of the Scriptures, when out of other writers, that they cannot discern when he speaketh his own, or a sentence of the Scripture.
Reading rather establisheth than derogateth from preaching▪ for none can be profitable hearers of preaching, that haue not been trained vp in reading the Scriptures, or hearing them read. Many inconueniences come from the neglect of reading, as that the people cannot tell when a sentence is alleadged out of the Canonicall Scriptures, when out of the Apocrypha, when out of the Scriptures, when out of other writers, that they cannot discerne when he speaketh his owne, or a sentence of the Scripture.
Again, reading helpeth mens judgements, memories and affections, but especially it serveth for the confirmation of our faith: which may be proved by the example of the men of Beroea, Act. 17. 13. It serveth to discern the spirits of men, 1. Joh. 4. to make sounder confession of our faith, to stop the mouths of our adversaries, and to answer the temptations of Satan and the wicked.
Againe, reading helpeth mens iudgements, memories and affections, but especially it serueth for the confirmation of our faith: which may be prooued by the example of the men of Beroea, Act. 17. 13. It serueth to discerne the spirits of men, 1. Ioh. 4