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…

Here is our work, as Christ hath done, so must we do, so we minister, and so you receive: we can give you nothing but that which we have received from him, as Paul saith. Therefore, if Christ did not give his mortal body which stood before them, and could not profit them; nor his glorified body, which was not glorified then, and when it was glorified, ascended up unto heaven, and there abideth: how can these juggling Priests make their God again, which made them? They can no more turn wine into ⟨p. 110⟩blood, & bread into flesh, than they can command a gnat to become a camel: for it is a greater work to make God, than to make the world.¹ Therefore as Christ saith; When they tell you here is Christ, and there is Christ, believe them not: So when they tell you that Christ is in heaven, and that Christ is in earth,² in this place and that place, believe them not: for Elijah ascension was a figure of Christs ascension: when Elijah was ascended, yet some sought for his body upon earth: so though Christ be ascended, yet many seek his body upon earth: but as they could not find Elijah body, so these cannot find Christs body, although they have sought three hundred years.

Here is our worke, as Christ hath done, so must we doe, so we minister, and so you receiue: wee can giue you nothing but that which we haue receiued from him, as Paul saith. Therefore, if Christ did not giue his mortall bodie which stood before them, and could not profite them; nor his glorified bodie, which was not glorified then, and when it was glorified, ascended vp vnto heauen, and there abideth: how can these iugling Priests make their God againe, which made them? They can no more turne wine into ⟨p. 110⟩blood, & bread into flesh, than they can commaund a gnat to become a camell: for it is a greater worke to make God, than to make the world.¹ Therefore as Christ saith; When they tell you here is Christ, and there is Christ, beleeue them not: So when they tell you that Christ is in heauen, and that Christ is in earth,