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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.
Therefore it follows in the next words,1 This I speak for your commodity, As though there were great commodity in remembering this watchword. All men have not the feeling of Gods word, or else such a sentence might be an anchor for the married to stay them, when any tentation ⟨p. 72⟩goeth about this change, which Paul feared even in them which feared GOD before.
Therfore it follows in the next words,1 This I speake for your cōmoditie, As thogh there were great cōmoditie in remembring this watchword. All men haue not the feeling of Gods word, or els such a sentēce might be an anker for the maried to stay thē, when any tentatiō ⟨p. 72⟩goeth about this chaunge, which Paul feared euen in them which feared GOD before.
- 1Ver. 3. 4.
If thou hast read all this book, and art never the better, yet catch this flower before thou go out of the garden, and peradventure the sent thereof will bring thee back to smell the rest.1 As the corps of Azael made the passengers to stand, so I placed this sentence in the door of thy passage, to make thee stand & consider what thou dost before thou marriest. For this is the scope and operation of it, to call the mind to a solemn meditation, and warn him to live in marriage as in a temptation, which is like to make him worse then he was,2