A02178:3101
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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The next means, by order the fourth, which the man of God useth, is here by name set down, meditation. But some will say; How cometh it to pass, that among so many and1 ⟨p. 459⟩sundry means no mention is made of hearing and reading the word of God? We answer, that this is a Psalm of experience, and not of knowledge. And he that seeketh for2 knowledge here will want method: but we must travail with the Prophet to find the truth so applied to our hearts, as we may show as well our infirmities, as our excellent graces. Again, because hearing is the sense of discipline, and many will attend on reading and hearing, which will not bestow time to confer, to pray, to give thanks, to meditate, or vow their obedience to the Lord, he comprehendeth the one in setting down the use of the other. For if in our reading and hearing for want of meditation we do not profit, we are as coloured in the Sun: wherefore we must admonish, and •ee admonished; we must pray, and provoke to pray; we must meditate and often think o• those things which we have heard or read.
The next meanes, by order the fourth, which the man of God vseth, is here by name set downe, meditation. But some will say; How commeth it to passe, that among so many and1 ⟨p. 459⟩sundrie meanes no mention is made of hearing and reading the word of God? Wee answere, that this is a Psalme of experience, and not of knowledge. And hee that seeketh for2 knowledge here will want methode: but wee must trauaile with the Prophet to finde the truth so applied to our hearts, as wee may shewe as well our infirmities, as our excellent graces. Againe, because hearing is the sense of discipline, and many will attend on reading and hearing, which will not bestowe time to conferre, to pray, to giue thankes, to meditate, or vow their obedience to the Lord, he comprehendeth the one in setting down the vse of the other. For if in our reading and hearing for want of meditation we doe not profit, we are as coloured in the Sunne: wherefore wee must admonish, and ee admonished; we must pray, and prouoke to pray; we must meditate and often thinke o those things which we haue heard or read.