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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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Three things children receive of their parents; life, maintenance, and instruction. For these three they owe other three: for life, they owe love; for maintenance, they owe obedience; for instruction, they owe reverence; for life, they must be loved as fathers; for maintenance, they must be obeyed as masters; for instruction, they must be reverenced as Tutors. But as there is a king of kings, which must be obeyed above kings: so there is a father of fathers, which must be obeyed above fathers; therefore, sometime you must answer like the son, when he was bid go into his fathers vineyard, I will go: and sometime you must answer as Christ answered, I must go about my Fathers business.
Three things children receiue of their parents; life, maintenance, and instruction. For these three they owe other three: for life, they owe loue; for maintenance, they owe obedience; for instruction, they owe reuerence; for life, they must be loued as fathers; for maintenance, they must be obeyed as maisters; for instruction, they must be reuerenced as Tutors. But as there is a king of kings, which must be obeyed aboue kings: so there is a father of fathers, which must be obeyed aboue fathers; therfore, sometime you must answer like the sonne, when he was bid go into his fathers vineyard, I will go: and sometime you must answer as Christ answered, I must go about my Fathers businesse.
When two milch kine did carry the Ark of the Lord to Bethshemesh, their calves were shut up at home, because the kine should not stay, when they heard their calves cry ⟨p. 244⟩after them: so when thou goest about the Lords business, thou shalt hear a cry of thy Father, and thy Mother and thy brethren, and thy Sisters, and thy Kindred, to stay thee; but then thou must think of another father, as Christ thought of another Mother: and so as these Kine went on till the Lord brought them where the Ark should rest; so thou shalt go on till the Lord bring thee where thou shalt rest. It is better to fly from our friends, as Abraham did,1