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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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Hence arise three questions. First, how the word doth thus work in men? It is when we use good means, and God his Spirit worketh upon the means. The usual means are hearing, reading, conferring, and meditating, and praying. This we may see 1. Corinth 10. Pro•. 29. Ephes 4. 1. Thess. 5. by the virtue of the word preached. To preaching we must join reading of it, Act. 17. As for conference and meditation, we must know, that never any shall come to the marrow of knowledge without this mean. For meditation is the life of learning, the want where of causeth, that the greatest Clerks are not the wisest men, Of prayer, Matth. 6. and 11. 1. Cor. 2. how needful this is so many must acknowledge, as confess the word to be a mystery, and therefore not to be conceived without the working of God his Spirit, which we must pray for. 2 Cor. 4.
Hence arise three questions. First, how the word doth thus worke in men? It is when we vse good meanes, and God his Spirit worketh vpon the meanes. The vsuall meanes are hearing, reading, conferring, and meditating, and praying. This we may see 1. Corinth 10. Pro•. 29. Ephes 4. 1. Thess. 5. by the vertue of the word preached. To preaching we must ioyne reading of it, Act. 17. As for conference and meditation, we must know, that neuer any shall come to the marrow of knowledge without this meane. For meditation is the life of learning, the want where of causeth, that the greatest Clerkes are not the wisest men, Of prayer,