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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.
A Morning Prayer.
O Lord prepare our hearts to pray.
O Lord prepare our hearts to praye.
Eternal God, giver to them which want, Comforter to them with suffer, and forgiver to them which repent: we have nothing to render thee but thine own. If we could give thee our bodies and souls, they should be saved by it: but thou wert never the richer for them. Al is our duty, & all of us cannot perform it: therefore thy son died, & thy spirit descended, and thy Angels guide, and thy Ministers teach, to help the weakness of men. All things call upon us, to call upon thee, and we are prostrate before thee, before we know how to worship thee: even since we rose, we have tasted many of thy blessings, & thou hast begun to serve us, before we begin to serve thee. Why shouldst thou bestow thy ⟨image 507⟩health and wealth, and rest, and liberty upon us more then other? we can give no reason for it, but that thou art merciful. And if thou shouldst draw all back again, we have nothing to say, but that thou art just. Our sins are so grievous and infinite, that we are fain to say with Judas, I have sinned and there stop, because we cannot reckon them. All things serve thee, as they did at first, only men are the sinners in this world.
ETernall God, giuer to them which want, Comforter to them wich suffer, and forgiuer to them which repent: we haue nothing to render thee but thine owne. If we could giue thee our bodies and soules, they should be saued by it: but thou wert neuer the richer for them. Al is our duetie, & al of vs cannot performe it: therefore thy son died, & thy spirite descended, and thy Angels guide, and thy Ministers teach, to helpe the weakenes of men. All things cal vpon vs, to cal vpon thee, and we are prostrate before thee, before wee know how to worship thee: euē since we rose, we haue tasted many of thy blessings, & thou hast begun to serue vs, before wee begin to serue thee. Why shouldst thou bestow thy