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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.
If Christ loved us,1 as Isaac loved Esau, for venison, then we might miss the blessing as Esau did: But as John saith; He loved in the truth, so Christ loveth in the truth. To love in the truth, is the true love: every love but this at one time or other hath turned into hatred, as the truth overcometh falsehood.
If Christ loued vs,1 as Isaack loued Esau, for venison, then we might misse the blessing as Esau did: But as Iohn saith; He loued in the truth, so Christ loueth in the truth. To loue in the truth, is the true loue: euerie loue but this at one time or other hath turned into hatred, as the truth ouercommeth falshood.
Now for this love, Christ calleth them by all the names of love, his father, and his brethren, and his sisters. In Rom. 6. they are called his servants. If that be not enough, in the fifteenth of John they are called his friends. If that be not enough, in the third of Mark they are called his kinsmen. If that be not enough, in the four & twentieth of Luke they are called his brethren. If that be not enough, in Mark 1. they are called his children. If that be not enough, here they are called his mother. If that be not enough, in Cantic. 5. they ⟨p. 250⟩are called his Spouse, to show that he loved them with all loves; the Mothers love, the Brothers love, the Sisters love, the Masters love, and the Friends love. If all these Loves could be put together, yet the love of Christ exceedeth them all: and the Mother, and the Brother, and the Sister, and the Child, and the kinsmen, and the Friend, and the Servant, would not do, and suffer so much among them all, as Christ hath done, and suffered for us alone. Such a love we kindle in Christ, when we hear his word, and do it, that we are as dear unto him, as all his kindred together.