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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.
The allurements of beauty, the trouble about riches, the charges of children, the losses by servants, the unquietness of neighbours cry unto him that he is entered into the hardest vocation of all other: and therefore they which have but nine years Prenticeship to make them good Mercers or Drapers, have nineteen years before marriage, to learn to be good husbands and wives, as though it were a trade of nothing but mysteries, and need of double time over all the rest.
The allurements of beautie, the trouble about riches, the charges of children, the losses by seruants, the vnquietnesse of neighbours crie vnto him that hee is entered into the hardest vocation of all other: and therefore they which haue but nine yeares Prentiship to make them good Mercers or Drapers, haue nineteene yeares before marriage, to learne to be good husbands and wiues, as though it were a trade of nothing but mysteries, and need of double time ouer all the rest.
Therefore so often as you think upon this saying, think whether you be examples of it,1 and it will waken you, and chide you, and lead you a straight path, like the Angel which led the servant of Abraham.
Therfore so often as you thinke vpon this saying, thinke whether you be examples of it,1 and it will waken you, and chide you, and lead you a straight path, like the Angell which led the seruant of Abraham.