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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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8 There are many places most effectual, and worthier meditation, than others in the Scripture, wherein Spiritus multum spiravit, for I think that the Spirit not only bloweth where it listeth, but also when, and in what measure he listeth. As in some places, namely Psalm 45. and 49. 1•. the Lord calleth as it were a congregation of all sorts and conditions, signifying some great point of wisdom; that he requireth so great a Theatre. The ancient ⟨p. 735⟩expositors say this wisdom is, where this word Selah is •ound▪ For whether it signify,1 as the seventy Interpreters say, a great pause, that the verse going before may be meditated on; or a repetition, as Rabbi Abraham saith, that that verse for it excellency should be twice sung, or both, as Tremellius; it must needs signify great wisdom and matter in the verse.
8 There are many places most effectuall, and worthier meditation, than others in the Scripture, wherein Spiritus multum spirauit, for I thinke that the Spirit not onely bloweth where it listeth, but also when, and in what measure hee listeth. As in some places, namely Psalme 45. and 49. 1•. the Lord calleth as it were a congregation of all sorts and conditions, signifying some great point of wisedome; that he requireth so great a Theatre. The ancient ⟨p. 735⟩expositours say this wisedome is, where this word Selah is •ound▪ For whether it signifie,1