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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.
Some have a double heart, as it is in the twelfth Psalm: but God acknowledgeth but one heart,1 saying, Give me thy heart, not give thy hearts; declaring that a single heart is pleasing unto him, and that they which have a double heart, a heart and a heart, have never a good heart.
Some haue a double heart, as it is in the twelfth Psalme: but God acknowledgeth but one heart,1 saying, Giue me thy heart, not giue thy hearts; declaring that a single heart is pleasing vnto him, and that they which haue a double heart, a heart and a heart, haue neuer a good heart.
God doth not require the heart, as though he required no more but the heart, like the Pope, which saith, Give my thy heart, and it sufficeth. To maintain his Papists pendant and crovehant, which live among Christians; he requireth nothing of such but their heart, that they may worship God with their lips, ⟨p. 267⟩and dissemble their religion, and forswear their opinion, and come to sermons, and subscribe to other laws, and seem Protestants, as the devil licenseth witches to seem Christians, so they give him their heart, he dispenseth with them to dissemble, and give the rest as they list: but God requireth the heart, because we should not dissemble; for in the twelfth to the Romans, he commandeth the body too,1 Offer up your bodies: which we can not do, unless we give heart, and hand, and tongue, and eyes, and ears, and all; for the body is all: but the heart is chief in request, because if there be any goodness, it lies in the heart, & because he which gives the heart, gives all: