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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.
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 as the marriage of Jehoram did, if he use not Jobs preservative,3 to be jealous over all his life.
If thou hast read all this booke, and art neuer the better, yet catch this flower before thou go out of the garden, and peraduenture 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 dore of thy passage, to make thee stand & consider what thou doost before thou marriest. For this is the scope and operation of it, to cal the mind to a solemne meditation, and warne him to liue in mariage as in a temptation, which is like to make him woorse then he was,2 as the mariage of Iehoram did, if he vse not Iobs preseruatiue,3 to be iealous ouer all his life.