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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.
When Christ saith,1 that a man should leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, he signifieth how Christ left his father for his spouse, and that man doth not love his wife so much as he should, until he affect her more then ever he did his father or mother. Therefore when God bad Abraham forsake all his kindred,2 yet he bad him not forsake his wife: as though the other sometime might be forsaken for God, but the wife must be kept for God, like a charge which bindeth for term of life.
When Christ saith,1 that a man should leaue father and mother, and cleaue to his wife, hee signifieth how Christ left his father for his spouse, and that man doth not loue his wife so much as he should, vntil he affect her more then euer he did his father or mother. Therfore when God bad Abraham forsake all his kinred,2 yet he bad him not forsake his wife: as though the other sometime might be forsaken for God, but the wife must be kept for God, like a charge which bindeth for tearme of life.
His next duty to love,1 is a fruit of his love: that is, to let all things be common between them, which were private before. The man & wife are partners,