A02178:1805
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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Faith in Christ is the second thing in this preparation, we must bring that with us when we come to read, looking on him as on the Messiah, that must teach us all things: he is the Lion of the tribe of Judah, to whom it is given to open the book of God. He opened the hearts of the Disciples going to Emmaus. Preachers build hay and stubble, because they do not only glory in him, but do seek credit and preferment by preaching themselves. All heretics differ among themselves, yet they all agree in this that they e••e from Jesus Christ.
Faith in Christ is the second thing in this preparation, we must bring that with vs when we come to read, looking on him as on the Messiah, that must teach vs all things: he is the Lion of the tribe of Iuda, to whom it is giuen to open the booke of God. He opened the hearts of the Disciples going to Emaus. Preachers build hay and stubble, because they doe not onely glory in him, but doe seeke credit and preferment by preaching themselues. All heretikes differ among themselues, yet they all agree in this that they e••e from Iesus Christ.
A heart prepared to learn is required, Pro. 17. 16. Wherefore is there a price in the heart 1of a fool to get wisdom, and he hath no heart▪ Our Lord Jesus Christ saith, that those that brought forth fruit (when they had heard) some thirty, some sixty, some an hundred fold, they were such as received the word with a good and honest heart, Luc. 8. Here saith a godly and learned man, men are shut out because they come without a heart