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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.
There is a hearing,1 & a preparative before hearing. There is a praying, and a preparative before praying.2 There is a receiving, and a preparative before receiving; which if it be wanting, the receiver receiveth uncomfortably, the prayer prayeth idly, the hearer heareth unfruitfully, like those which do eat before hunger, and drink before thirst.
There is a hearing,1 & a preparatiue before hearing. There is a praying, and a preparatiue before praying.2 There is a receiuing, and a preparatiue before receiuing; which if it be wanting, the receiuer receiueth vncomfortablie, the prayer praieth idlely, the hearer heareth vnfruitfullie, like those which doe eate before hunger, and drinke before thirst.
- 1Luk. 8. 18.
- 2Eccle. 4. 17.
This preparative before hearing, and praying, ⟨p. 140⟩and receiving doth signify that there is a kind of physic in these three, for preparatives are ministered always before Physic, and as the preparative which goeth before, maketh way to the physic, or else it would do no good but hurt: so unless examination go before the sacrament, we seal up the threatenings which are written against us, in stead of the promises which are made unto us: for the sacrament is a seal, and therefore sealeth good or evil, as every other seal doth.