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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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In that he saith, My soul doth keep them, his meaning is, that therefore he laid up the precepts of God in his heart, that he might have them in a readiness when he should practise them, as he saith portion 2. 3. I have hid thy promise in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.
In that he saith, My soule doth keepe them, his meaning is, that therefore hee laide vp the precepts of God in his heart, that hee might haue them in a readinesse when hee should practise them, as he saith portion 2. 3. I haue hid thy promise in my heart, that I might not sinne against thee.
The soul is the seat of affections, for he saith, that he had the statutes of the Lord in1 his affections. The seat of divinity is the heart, wherefore the Scriptures use so often to say, the heart of man is corrupt, the Lord searcheth the heart, the foolish man hath said in his heart. For though the Philosophers said, that the mind was the seat of knowledge, yet they could never see, that the heart is the seat of Christian religion. Which if it were in our mind, we should surely be puffed up with it, as we are with knowledge. Here is then2 a trial of our hearts. I see many labour after knowledge, but few after affections. This in temptation will not help, until both knowledge and affections be on our sides to resist, so that which we have in knowledge, may also be in affections. For though we may learn it, and commend it for a while; yet surely we shall have no profit by it in temptation.3 When we have none other seat for divinity, but our heart, and do not place it in our brain, and when we have throughly set our affections on it, our life though it should be taken from us, yet our soul would stick to the thing whereon our affections are so earnestly set. So Jonathans heart was said to be knit to David: wherefore let us labour to say with the Virgin Mary, My soul doth magnify th• Lord, my spirit rejoiceth in God my Saviour.