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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. 80. Let mine heart be upright in thy statutes, that I be not ashamed.
Vers. 80. Let mine heart be vpright in thy statutes, that I be not ashamed.
HE prayed before for good understanding, here he prayeth for sound affections: this order in prayer must we also use: first to pray for knowledge, and then for good affection. For good affections without knowledge, are nothing worth, & knowledge without affections is nothing. Then we must pray, that as we have greater knowledge than others, so our affections may be better than others, and our hearts more upright. ⟨p. 439⟩He showeth that there is no uprightness but in the Commandments, therefore what good affections soever seem to be in Turks, Papists, and such as have not knowledge, these cannot be upright, because they have not the word. No man can know his own heart but by GOD, (Jerem: 17.) and by the word, which is of the same nature that God is.
HE prayed before for good vnderstanding, here he prayeth for sound affections: this order in prayer must we also vse: first to pray for knowledge, and then for good affection. For good affections without knowledge, are nothing worth, & knowledge without affections is nothing. Then we must pray, that as we haue greater knowledge than others, so our affections may be better than others, and our hearts more vpright. ⟨p. 439⟩Hee sheweth that there is no vprightnesse but in the Commaundements, therefore what good affections soeuer seeme to bee in Turkes, Papists, and such as haue not knowledge, these cannot bee vpright, because they haue not the worde. No man can knowe his owne heart but by GOD, (Ierem: 17.) and by the word, which is of the same nature that God is.