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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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5 If we believe the Rabbins, there were never in Jerusalem from Christ to Antioch••, under1 400. houses of catechizing, what time also they made their decree, that their children at thirteen years should be put to catechizing▪ And to this order among them may Paul seem to have relation, Rom. 2. 18. where he affirmeth the Jews are catechized in the law. 2Ephes 6 4▪ they are willed to bring them up in instruction. Paul as some think, sometime bearing this office saith, 1. Cor • 14 that I may catechize. For catechized we have, Luk. 14. Theophilus: Act. 18. 25 Apollos: 2 Tim 3. 15. Timothy. Mark catechizing at Alexandria with great profit was commended by Philo Judaeus, as Eusebius maketh mention. After Clemens: 3next Origen▪ We have also the catechism of Cyril: Gregory Nisan: the books of Augustine, of catechizing the ignorant: and foure books de symbolo ad catechumenos. Also Athanasius 4his Synopsis of sacred Scripture: and Fulgentius de Fide ad Petrum Diaconum. In the Fathers time it may be seen by the sixth canon of the council holden at Neocaesaria: By the six & seven canons of the council holden at Iberis in Spain: 2 council of Bra•caria, 1. Can. 4. Tolet. Can. 24. After that, is there no mention made, till the time of Luther. Touching the great good, that the frequenting of this exercise hath done, this may be added, that Aegesippus saith, that by the virtue of catechizing, there was never a kingdom, but received