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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.
It is not a base nor vile thing to be called a servant,1 for our Lord is called a servant:2 which teacheth Christians, to use their servants well for Christs sake, seeing they are servants too, and have one master Christ. As David speaketh of man, saying:3 Thou hast made him a little lower then the Angels; so I may say of servants, that God hath made them a little lower then children, not children, but the next to children, as one would say inferior children, or sons in law.
It is not a base nor vile thing to bee called a seruaunt,1 for our Lord is called a seruaunt:2 which teacheth Christians, to vse their seruaunts well for Christes sake, seeing they are seruants too, and haue one maister Christ. As Dauid speaketh of man, saying:3 Thou hast made him a little lower then the Angels; so I may say of seruaunts, that God hath made them a little lower then children, not children, but the next to children, as one would say inferior children, or sonnes in law.