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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.
By their success: for if they be not of God §5they will come to nought as the Arians, and Manichees, and Pelagians are vanished, as if they had never been: so time shall wear out every doctrine that is not trueth. This is thy rule to try others spirits.
By their successe: for if they be not of God §5they will come to nought as the Arrians, and Manichees, and Pelagians are vanished, as if they had neuer bene: so time shall weare out euerie doctrine that is not trueth. This is thy rule to trie others spirits.
Thou shalt try thine own spirit by the §1motions that it hath to good or evil. For as a good stomach turneth all that it eats into good nutriment: and a bad stomach turneth all that it eats into raw humours: so likewise a good mind converteth all that it heareth, ⟨p. 144⟩and all that it seeth, and all that it feeleth, unto some profit: but a bad mind maketh a temptation of every thing: therefore it is said,1 To the clean all things are clean, and so, to the unclean nothing is clean:2 that is, they defile themselves with every thing.
Thou shalt trie thine owne spirite by the §1motions that it hath to good or euill. For as a good stomacke turneth all that it eates into good nutriment: and a bad stomack turneth all that it eates into raw humors: so likewise a good minde conuerteth all that it heareth, ⟨p. 144⟩