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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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Commodities of meditation, and hurts of the want thereof.
1 IF we meditate of those general rules which we have heard out of the word, we shall1 many times see more clearly into the truth of it, than he that preacheth, or at least more than he expressed unto us. For by the spirit of God we shall be taught to apply it more particularly to our selves, than he did or could do, because we are most privy to our own estate.
1 IF we meditate of those generall rules which we haue heard out of the word, we shall1 many times see more cleerely into the truth of it, than he that preacheth, or at least more than he expressed vnto vs. For by the spirit of God we shall be taught to applie it more particularly to our selues, than he did or could doe, because we are most priuie to our owne estate.
- 1Psal. 119. I am wiser than my teachers.
2 Those that much meditate, become there by the godliest men, and most profitable to themselves and others: because meditation so increaseth knowledge in us, as that it especially breedeth good affections, and quickeneth them most, being begun in us, & by ou affections we are carried to practise goodness in our selves. Contrariwise, they which use not meditation, cannot attain to that knowledge, which otherwise they might have. For