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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.
That man is like Esau, which had an inheritance, which had a heart,1 but now he hath not possession of his own, therefore give God thy heart, that he may keep it, not a piece of thy heart, not a room in thy heart, but thy heart. The heart divided, dieth: God is not like the mother, which would have the child divided, but like the natural mother, which ⟨p. 266⟩said, rather then it should be divided, let her take all. Let the devil have all, if he which gave it be not worthy of it: God hath no copesmate, therefore he will have no parting of stakes, but all or none, and therefore he which asks here thy heart, in the sixth of Deuteronomy, and the fifth verse, asks all thy heart, all thy soul, all thy strength; thrice he requireth all, least we should keep a thought behind: yet it is thy heart, that is, a vain heart, a barren heart, a sinful heart, until thou give it unto God, and then it is the spouse of Christ,2 the temple of the holy Ghost, and the image of God,3 so changed and formed,4 and refined,5 that God calls it a new heart.
That man is like Esau, which had an inheritance, which had a heart,1 but now he hath not possession of his owne, therfore giue God thy heart, that he may keepe it, not a peece of thy heart, not a roome in thy heart, but thy heart. The heart diuided, dieth: God is not like the mother, which would haue the child diuided, but like the naturall mother, which ⟨p. 266⟩said, rather then it should be diuided, let her take all. Let the diuell haue all, if he which gaue it bee not worthie of it: God hath no copesmate, therefore he will haue no parting of stakes, but all or none, and therefore hee which askes heere thy heart, in the sixt of Deuteronomie, and the fift verse, askes all thy heart, all thy soule, all thy strength; thrise he requireth all, least we should keepe a thought behind: yet it is thy heart, that is, a vayne heart, a barren heart, a sinfull heart, vntil thou giue it vnto God, and then it is the spouse of Christ,