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The sermons of Master Henry Smith gathered into one volume. Printed according to his…The sermons of Maister Henrie Smith gathered into one volume. Printed according to his…
The sermons of Master Henry Smith gathered into one volume. Printed according to his corrected copies in his life time.The sermons of Maister Henrie Smith gathered into one volume. Printed according to his corrected copies in his life time.
London: printed by Richard Field for Thomas Man, 1593
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
This they did without knowledge: but God directed every thing unto a right end. For it was meet that the Son of GOD should be cleared in a solemn manner, by an earthly Judge, to show how we shall be cleared by the heavenly Judge: and therefore, as it appeareth in the seven and twentieth Chapter, and four and twentieth verse of Saint Mathews Gospel, Pilate said: that he found no evil in him before he gave sentence against him, which showeth that he died not for his own sins but for our sins, and therefore though they went to the Judge to save themselves from blame, yet God sent them to the Judge, that his word might be fulfilled.
This they did without knowledge: but God directed euery thing vnto a right end. For it was meete that the Sonne of GOD shoulde bee cleered in a solemne manner, by an earthlie Iudge, to shewe how wee shalbe cleered by the heauenlie Iudge: and therefore, as it appeareth in the seuen and twentieth Chapter, and foure and twentieth verse of Saint Mathewes Gospell, Pilate saide: that he found no euill in him before he gaue sentence against him, which sheweth that he died not for his owne sinnes but for our sinnes, and therefore though they went to the Iudge to saue thēselues from blame, yet God sent them to the Iudge, that his worde might be fulfilled.
Lastly, this Pilate was a Roman governor, which ruled for Caesar, as Zacheus was a Roman collector which gathered for Caesar: For at that time the Romans had brought much of the world unto their subjection: as since that time, they have brought much of the world unto Idolatry: ⟨p. 888⟩and therefore God would have his son to be judged by the Roman policy, and to be condemned by a Roman Judge, and to be slain with a Roman death, as it were joining the Jews and the Romans in impiety together, to show, that these two Nations should be the odiousest people unto him in all the world, and how his servants should be crucified there, where he was crucified himself: for as the Romans then did crucify Christ upon a Cross, so they crucify him now upon their Altar, and resemble the Dragon,1