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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. 167. My soul hath kept thy testimonies: for I love them exceedingly.
Vers. 167. My soule hath kept thy testimonies: for I loue them exceedingly.
Here he confirmeth the same doctrine which he used before, for in saying my soul hath kept thy testimonies, is all one as if he should have said, I have looked (or waited) on thy salvation. For as we often observed, the man of God meaneth the covenant which engendereth faith, as the records and testimonials of Gods favour towards us. So that the effect of these words is thus much: I have an entire care in sincerity of faith, to increase the blessed witnesses of thy love toward me. It is an usual phrase among the Hebrews, when they would express their vehement affection to any thing to say, My soul: as Psal. 103. 1. and 104. 1. My soul praise thou the Lord, and Luk. 1. My soul doth magnify the Lord. So that here the Prophet doth not only outwardly commend the law, but saith, that he hath sworn and will perform the keeping of God his testimonies▪ With the heart, saith the Apostle, we believe, showing that the heart is the proper place of faith, and not the brain, and that we must as well be touched in affection, as in outward bettering of our judgement. They must ⟨p. 594⟩