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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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And though we have knowledge enough, yet we had need to be straitened, because we are as a broken bow, and in seeking of knowledge we must seek it fruitfully: scire, ut scias, audire ut audias, is mere vanity. Every one would be a patient in the word of God, but there be many pragmatical things: Beatiqui audiunt. What is that enough? Beati qui ambulant, qui custodiunt;▪ eati qui perseverant. If we will not hear, the time will come when we shall be constrained to hear: if we will not hear when the Lord speaketh, we shall cry but not be heard: if we hear it as a bond to tie the Lord to hear us again according to his promise.
And though we haue knowledge enough, yet we had need to be straighted, because we are as a broken bow, and in seeking of knowledge we must seeke it fruitfully: scire, vt scias, audire vt audias, is meere vanitie. Euery one would be a patient in the word of God, but there be many pragmaticall things: Beatiqui audiunt. What is that enough? Beati qui ambulant, qui custodiunt;▪ eati qui perseuerant. If we will not heare, the time will come when we shall be constrained to heare: if we will not heare when the Lord speaketh, we shall crie but not be heard: if we heare it as a bond to tie the Lord to heare vs againe according to his promise.
3 Look how near we come unto the practise of David, so near are we to the lively members of God; and look how far we are from that, so far are we from the image of God. Men rather seek for profound knowledge, than for faith that worketh by love, and covet more the ministerial doctrine, than after the power of the Spirit. Therefore God, who is as able to send a lying spirit into the mouths of 400. Prophets, as into any of the meanest Israelites, doth punish them commonly with strange doctrine, & give them up to strong illusions. We ought to have such a burning affection in us, that we should not be able to express it, as David had, who because he could not express it, useth an exclamation,