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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.
1. Pet. 2. 2. As new borne babes desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow by it.
1. Pet. 2. 2. As new borne babes disire the sincere milke of the word, that ye may grow by it.
This Scripture (beloved in the Lord) containeth an exhortation to in••re and stir up the believing Jews, that as God had enlightened them with some knowledge of his trueth, and sanctified them in some measure with the grace of his spirit: so they would proceed & grow on and daily increase more and more in the faith and fear of Jesus Christ, like the glorious sun which still augmenteth and redoubleth his heat and light, till it be come to the middest of heaven, where is perfect day. Now the means whereby we receive all our growth and increase in God, is the lively preaching of the word of trueth. And therefore the Apostle by a figurative, and borrowed kind of ⟨p. 1003⟩speech, earnestly pressing them to thirst & to long for the word of God, even the food of their souls, as little infants (which are new borne) cry for the mothers milk to nourish and sustain them. For there are two births mentioned in the Scripture: the one fleshly, and natural by propagation from the first Adam, whereby original and our birth-sin, as it were a Serpents poison, passeth and transfuseth it self into us: the other heavenly and spiritual by renovation, from the second Adam which is Jesus Christ, whereby grace and holiness is derived and brought unto us.
THis Scripture (beloued in the Lord) containeth an exhortation to in••re and stirre vp the beleuing Iewes, that as God had illightned them with some knowledge of his trueth, and sanctified them in some measure with the grace of his spirit: so they would proceed & grow on and dailie increase more and more in the faith and feare of Iesus Christ, like the glorious sunne which still augmenteth and redoubleth his heat and light, till it bee come to the middest of heauen, where is perfect daie. Nowe the meanes whereby we receiue all our grouth and increase in God, is the liuelie preaching of the word of trueth. And therefore the Apostle by a figuratiue, and borrowed kinde of