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…

First, it is called a living sacrifice, because the beasts died, when they were sacrificed, but men live when they are sacrificed, nay they die unless they be sacrificed. As Abraham did not lose his son,¹ when he was con tent to sacrifice him to God, so men do not lose their pleasures, when they sacrifice them to God. But as Christ saith, He which leaveth father or mother for me, shall receive an hundred fold: So he which leaveth any comfort for God, shall receive an hundred comforts for it. For Gods demands are not only demands, but gifts. He bids thee sacrifice thy body, that thou mightest partake the sacrifice of his body. Here then is but one Sacrifice for an other, one body for another, a beggars body for a Kings body: Well may he require a living sacrifice which hath given a dead sacrifice.² Christ died for us, but he desireth not our death, but our life, that we would serve him with our life. It is called an holy sacrifice, because our bodies are the temples of the holy ⟨p. 968⟩ghost that is, if they are not, they should be the Temples of the holy Ghost. But as the Jews abused the Temple of stone, so we have abused the Temple of flesh, and there is no way to make it holy again but for the holy ghost to dwell in it, that is to sacrifice it to God, & then it is holy, because as virtue came out of Christ to heal the woman's disease, so holiness cometh out of Christ to heal every mans sins, and then they are holy.

First, it is called a liuing sacrifice, because the beasts died, when they were sacrificed, but men liue when they are sacrificed, nay they die vnles they be sacrificed. As Abraham did not lose his sonne,¹ when he was cō tent to sacrifice him to God, so mē do not lose their pleasures, when they sacrifice thē to God. But as Christ saith, He which leaueth father or mother for me, shall receiue an hundred folde: So he which leaueth any cōfort for God, shall receiue an hūdred comforts for it. For Gods demands are not onely demands, but gifts. Hee bids thee sacrifice thy bodie, that thou mightest partak the sacrifice of his body. Here then is but one Sacrifice for an other, one body for another, a beggers body for a Kings body: Well may he require a liuing sacrifice which hath giuen a dead sacrifice.