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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.
As nothing doth please us, unless it be some way like us, and agreeable to our nature: so nothing doth please God, but that which is like God, therefore because God is holy, no sacrifice doth please him, but the holy sacrifice, therefore holy goeth before acceptable, 1to show that our sacrifice is not acceptable, unless it be holy. A living, holy and acceptable sacrifice.
As nothing dooth please vs, vnlesse it bee some waie like vs, and agreeable to our nature: so nothing doth please God, but that which is like God, therefore because God is holy, no sacrifice doth please him, but the holie sacrifice, therefore holie goeth before acceptable, 1to shewe that our sacrifice is not acceptable, vnlesse it be holie. Aliniug, holy and acceptable sacrifice.
- 11. Sam. 15. 72.
3 It is called an acceptable sacrifice, because no sacrifice is so accepted, as when we offer our selves. Therefore Samuel saith, obedience is better than sacrifice: 1that is, it pleaseth God better than sacrifice? Now if we must sacrifice to God, we should do as we do to Princes, that is, offer that which may be accepted, 2that we may be accepted for our gift: or else better undone than done. When Cain had sacrificed to God, because his sacrifice was not accepted, therefore Moses saith that ⟨p. 969⟩his countenance was cast down: but if we sacrifice our bodies, our countenance need not be cast down: for Paul saith, that this sacrifice is accepted.