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,…

2 Many reading in the sermons of the Prophets & Apostles, how they exhort to the hearing¹ of the word, marvel at it. And if at this day we be spoken so to hear, we can say, Why, we sit here for no other end, we came hi•her for that purpose, our feet made hast to hear, and therefore it seemeth to be a vain speech. Wherefore we must understand, that this word (hear) hath a further meaning than so, Ezekiel chap. 3. saith, L•t him that hath ears to hear, hear: so that there are two kinds of hearing, else this had been a frivolous speech. We must know therefore that (Job. 42) there are two hearings. There is an hearing of the ear, and there is an hearing of the heart: there is a speaking to the ear, and there is a speaking to the heart. •o• said▪ he heard the Lord but with his ears, with his gristles only, and afterward he heard the Lord better, and that was with the hearing of the heart. We must learn then to draw up our hearts up to our ears, that so one sound may² pierce both at once. But to hear with the heart there are four things to be performed: the first is set down, Eccles. 4 17. Look to thy feet, when thou goest into the house of the Lord. And 2. Chron. 34. because men did not prepare their hearts in their houses at home, or by the way abroad, all was in vain, they lost their success in heavenly things. The first thing³ then is preparation And coming to the Church, every man is to deal thus with himself: I shall now go where I may sit among reprobates, least therefore I should set on more on the bill and beadroll of my sins, I will prepare my self, and pray in serious⁴