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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 AFFINITY OF THE FAITHFUL.
THE AFFINITIE OF THE FAITHFVL.
Luke 8. 19 Then came to him his Mother, & his Brethren, and could not come near him for the press. 20 And it was told him by certain which said, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, and would see thee. 21 But he answered, and said unto them, My Mother & my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.
Luke 8. 19 Then came to him his Mother, & his Brethren, and could not come neare him for the prease. 20 And it was told him by certaine which sayd, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, and would see thee. 21 But he answered, and said vnto them, My Mother & my brethren are these which heare the word of God, and do it.
Here is Christ preaching, a great press hearing, his mother and his friends interrupting, & Christ again withstanding the interruption, with a comfortable doctrine of his mercies toward them which hear the word of ⟨p. 235⟩God, and do it. When Christ was about a good work, and many were gathered together to hear him, the Devil thought with him self as the Priests and Sadducees did in the fourth of the Acts; If I let him alone thus, all the world will follow him, and I shall be like Rachel without children: therefore devising the likeliest policy to frustrate & disgrace but one of his Sermons, thereby to make the people more unwilling to hear him again;