If parents would have their children blessed at church and at school, let them beware they give their children no corrupt examples at home by any carelessness, profaneness, or ungodliness. Otherwise, parents will do them more harm at home than both pastors and schoolmasters can do them good abroad. For the corrupt example of the one fighteth with the good instruction of the other, which is so much the more dangerous because that corrupt walking is armed with nature, and therefore more forcibly inclineth the affections of the children to that side.

Richard Greenham (1535–1594), Geistlicher und Theologe

Topics: Relationships & Family, Discipleship, Growth & Character

Occasions: For Reflection

Richard Greenham

Richard Greenham war ein englischer puritanischer Geistlicher und Theologe des 16. Jahrhunderts, der vor allem als Dorfpfarrer in Dry Drayton bei Cambridge sowie in London wirkte. Er gilt als Wegbereiter der praktischen Seelsorge und des englischen Sabbatarianismus, wobei er trotz kirchenrechtlicher Konflikte um liturgische Bräuche eine Abspaltung von der Church of England ablehnte. Bibellesern begegnet er heute vor allem durch seine Schriften zum Umgang mit geistlichen Anfechtungen und zur Begründung von Heilsgewissheit allein durch den Glauben.

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