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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.
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:2 for out of the abundance of the hart the mouth speaketh, the hand worketh, the eye looketh, the ear listeneth, the foot walketh to good or evil.
God doth not require the heart, as though he required no more but the heart, like the Pope, which saith, Giue my thy heart, and it sufficeth. To maintaine his Papists pendant and crouehant, which liue 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 forsweare their opinion, and come to sermons, and subscribe to other lawes, and seeme Protestants, as the diuell licenseth witches to seeme Christians, so they giue him their heart, he dispenceth with them to dissemble, and giue the rest as they list: but God requireth the heart, because we should not dissemble; for in the twelfth to the Romanes, he commandeth the bodie too,1 Offer vp your bodies: which we can not do, vnlesse we giue heart, and hand, and tongue, and eyes, and eares, and all; for the bodie is all: but the heart is chiefe in request, because if there be anie goodnesse, it lyes in the heart, & because he which giues the heart, giues all: