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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. 130. The entrance into thy word showeth light, and giveth understanding to the simple.
Vers. 130. The entrance into thy word sheweth light, and giueth vnderstanding to the simple.
This is no painted wisdom, yet the simplicity of the word is of more glory and1 pomp, than all the wisdom of the world besides. Wherefore Paul, Ephes. 3. prayed that the Ephesians might according to the riches of Gods glory, receive strength by his spirit in the inner man, to comprehend the breadth and height and length and depth of this our Saviour Christ speaking to Peter of this mystery attained to by faith, saith, Flesh and blood hath not […] this unto thee, but the Spirit. And in Matth. 13 11. where our Saviour Christ spake in Parables, he ••••e, Because it is given to you to know the secrets of the kingdom of •••••n▪ but to •h•m it is not given. Many may have the word of God strike their ears▪ they may have an humane conceiving of it, but few have the right and spiritual understanding of it.