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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
PORTION. 13. MEM.
Vers. 97. Oh how love They law? it is my meditation continually.
Vers. 97. Oh how loue They law? it is my meditation continually.
This Psalm is a lively representation of a man regenerate, and teacheth us, what are, or ought to be his meditations, his exercises, and his affections; so that1 by how much a man shall have found himself to be truly conversant in this Psalm, so much may he think himself to have profited in regeneration: and by how much the less he hath found, that he is less occupied in the practise hereof, so much he is to suspect himself to fail and come short of newness of life. In these days, because we attribute so much to ministerial knowledge, and have felt so little profit by2 the teaching of the Spirit, and seeing we brag so much of faith, & have so little love; lastly, whereas we boast of our profession, and yet are so little profited in holy conversation, the Lord for such contempt of his trueth, doth *now teach us by deluding spirits, and fantastical devisers, and the lying Family of love. Wherefore unless we be more inflamed with a love of the truth, and an hatred of heresy, than we have been; it may come to pass, that as in the Primitive Church the Gospel of Jesus Christ being preached at the first, of men of the lowest state, and afterward for the good liking of it, was brought to be preached after the more learned sort: even so heresy now beginning in the unlearned and ignorant