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…

This book is a story of patient Job, to show how God can deal with all, and how they should receive all things at his hand, seeing the most innocent man in the world, when God should try him, was brought so low, that the Devil had power to lay upon him what torment he would, death only excepted, and yet he stood to it with ⟨p. 1035⟩such constancy, that he saith, though the Lord kill me, yet will I trust in him, the thirteenth Chapter of Job, and fifteenth verse. Such power was given unto his faith, and love, and patience, that they overcame the Devil, which said that if he might have leave to plague him, he would make him blaspheme God to his face, verse, 11. Therefore God would have this victory to be recorded for all such as are sick, or sore, or needy, or oppressed, that whatsoever pain we suffer, we may remember that Jobs pain was sharper than this, and yet it could not make him so impatient: but when like a man he was offended with his torments; like an holy man he was more offended with himself, and angry with his anger. Therefore at last God returned to him, and removed his troubles and made his end more honourable than his beginning, as if he should say, Thus it shall be done to the man which is not offended with my chastisements. Now to our purpose, in the first verse of this Chapter, the holy Ghost showeth what a good man Job was, saying; that he was an upright and just man, one that feared God and eschewed evil. In the second verse, he showeth what store of children Job had: saying, he had seven sons and three daughters. In the third verse he showeth what store of riches Job had: saying, his substance ⟨p. 1036⟩was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand Camels, and five hundred yoke of Oxen, and five hundred Asses, &c. In the fourth verse he returneth again to his children, showing how they were occupied, before the wind came and blew the house upon their heads, saying, his sons went and banqueted, in their houses every one his day, and called their three sisters to eat and drink with them. In the fifth verse he cometh again to Job, and shows a proof of his virtues, which he commended him for before, saying, that when his sons had banqueted, he sent for them, and sanctified them, and rose up early, &c.

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