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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
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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.
For example,1 thou makest a bargain with thy neighbour for house or land, and receivest in earnest a piece of gold: that which thou receivest is but a piece of gold, but now it is a sign of thy bargain, and if thou keep not touch with him, happily it will clasp thee for all that thou art worth: so, that which thou receivest is bread, but this bread is a sign of another matter which passeth bread.
For example,1 thou makest a bargaine with thy neighbour for house or land, and receyuest in earnest a peece of golde: that which thou receiuest is but a peece of golde, but now it is a signe of thy bargaine, and if thou keepe not touch with him, happily it will claspe thee for all that thou art woorth: so, that which thou receiuest is bread, but this bread is a signe of another matter which passeth bread.
- 1A similitude.
Again,1 thou hast an obligation in thy hand, and I ask thee what hast thou there? and thou sayest, I have here an hundred pounds: why (say I) there is nothing but paper, ink, and wax: Oh, but by this (sayest thou) I will recover an hundred pounds, and that is as good. So beloved, this is as good, that under these signs, you receive the virtue of Christs body and blood by faith, as if you did eat his body, and drink his blood indeed, which is horrible to think that any ⟨p. 105⟩should devour their God, thinking thereby to worship him: never any heretic, nor Idolater, conceived so grossly of their god before the Papist. We read of a people which did eat men, but never of any people which did eat their God.