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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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¶ Vers. 48. Mine hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments which I have loved: and I will meditate in thy statutes.
¶ Vers. 48. Mine hands also will I lift vp vnto thy commandements which I haue loued: and I will meditate in thy statutes.
IT was not sufficient (as he thought) to acquaint GOD with the delight of his heart, unless he also made manifest unto him that his outward gesture was answerable to his hart. You shall observe it even in little children, that if they desire to have any thing that they see, they will stretch out their hands that they may get hold, and having once gotten it, you shall hardly get it from them again.
IT was not sufficient (as he thought) to acquaint GOD with the delight of his heart, vnles he also made manifest vnto him that his outward gesture was answerable to his hart. You shall obserue it euen in little children, that if they desire to haue any thing that they see, they will stretch out their hands that they may get holde, and hauing once gotten it, you shall hardly get it from them againe.
And certainly, if the inward man be sound, you shall observe it by the outward gesture of the body. The people were desirous to hear Christs Sermon, their eyes were bent and fixed upon him, Luk: 4. 6. David would express his love to Gods Ark, he danced before the Ark of Gods Covenant. If we love Gods Word, and love it in truth, our hands will be as ready to turn over the leaves of that blessed book, as our hearts are desirous of the understanding of it, that in this longing desire, taking it into our hands, we may in the end have such fast hold of it, that we will not forgo it for all the world. We cannot employ our hands in a better work, especially when we have freedom from our callings, then to take up the book of God, and peruse it over.