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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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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
A heart prepared to learne is required, Pro. 17. 16. Wherefore is there a price in the heart 1of a foole to get wisedome, and he hath no heart▪ Our Lord Iesus Christ saith, that those that brought forth fruit (when they had heard) some thirtie, some sixtie, some an hundred fold, they were such as receiued 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
- 1Good heart.
Now follow the properties that must follow our readings: Whereof the first is meditation, the want of which makes men depart without fruit, though they read or heat diligently. Meditation makes that which we have read to be our own. He is blessed which meditates in the law, day and night. Psal. 1. 2.