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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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CHAP. LVI. Of Prophecy and Preaching.
CHAP. LVI. Of Prophecie and Preaching.
The office of a Prophet is not only to foretell things, although many did so; (the1 gross understanding whereof hath put down our prophecies) but also to teach to pray, and plainly to interpret with a fit application to the people, by the revelation of the Spirit, 1. Corinth 24 Genes. 18. and 19 Number 11. Deu• 18. 1. Sam. 12. This revelation cometh sometimes by means, sometimes extraordinarily, but always spiritually: for this difference is between prophesying and teaching, that a man may teach that he hath learned in the Schools, but the other hath a further revelation of the Spirit: to apply the word to times and persons fitly, that every one may have his portion. Revelation is ordinary or extraordinary; ordinary when he spiritually speaketh of the2 word, as the word of God, with power dividing it aright (as the Apostle Pau• saith) If any be spiritual, let him understand what I say. Extraordinary, when by some revelation of3 Gods Spirit, he can note and specify the time, or manner, or place of Gods threatenings here again I say as the Apostle saith: If any be spiritual let him consider what I say, and the Lord give them understanding: yet this is not to bring in the revelations of the Family of love, or any other Heretics, which dream of such things as are not in, and according to the word.