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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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My reins teach me in the night. This place hath in it some difficulty, and divers interpreters write diversly of it. But it is certain, that often in the Scriptures the heart and the reins are mentioned together: as Psal. 26. Prove me, O Lord, and try me: examine my reins and my heart. By the heart (I think) is meant the more inward and secret thoughts: by the reins are understood the more outward and sensual affections, as Psal. 51. 6. Behold thou lovest truth in the inward affections: therefore hast thou taught me wisdom in the secret of mine heart. And Psal. 139. 23▪ Try me, O Lord, and know mine heart, prove me and know my thoughts.
My reines teach me in the night. This place hath in it some difficultie, and diuers interpreters write diuersly of it. But it is certaine, that often in the Scriptures the heart and the reines are mentioned together: as Psal. 26. Proue me, O Lord, and trie me: examine my reines and my heart. By the heart (I thinke) is meant the more inward and secret thoughts: by the reines are vnderstood the more outward and sensuall affections, as Psal. 51. 6. Behold thou louest truth in the inward affections: therefore hast thou taught me wisedome in the secret of mine heart. And Psal. 139. 23▪ Trie me, O Lord, and know mine heart, proue me and knowe my thoughts.
In the night. Of his holy exercises in the night the man of God speaketh, Psal. 119 55.