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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 FIRST SERMON.
1. Cor. 11. 23. 24. The Lord Jesus in the night that he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body which is broken for you, this do ye in remembrance of me.
1. Cor. 11. 23. 24. The Lord Iesus in the night that he was betraytooke bread: And when he had giuen thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my bodie which is broken for you, this doe ye in remembrance of me.
The word,1 and the Sacraments are the two breasts wherewith our Mother doth nurse us. Seeing every one receiveth, and few understand what they receive; I thought it the necessariest doctrine to preach of the Sacrament; which is a witness of Gods promises, a remembrance of Christs death, and a seal ⟨p. 75⟩of our adoption: therefore Christ hath not instituted this Sacrament for a fashion in his Church, to touch, and feel, and see, as we gaze upon pictures in the windows, but as the woman which had the bloody issue,2 touching the hem of Christs garment, drew virtue from Christ himself, because she believed: so Christ would that we touching these signs should draw virtue from himself, that is, all the graces which these signs represent. Therefore as the Levites under the Law,3