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…

Therefore Gods suits have so hard passage in mens counsels, judgements, and Parliaments, because they do not give him their harts, which should be the first offering of all; if they would give him their hearts before they sit down to hear his cause, they could not deny him any thing that is for his honour, though it were against their profit: but as Christ sayeth,¹ Not my will, but thy will: so they would say, It is not our Kingdom, but thy Kingdom; it is not our Church, but thy Church; therefore not our will, but thy will; not our law, but thy law; not our discipline, but thy discipline reign in it; and all that give their hearts subscribe to this: the rest say, not thy will, but our will; not thy law, but our law; not thy discipline, but our discipline, because as the Apostle saith, They seek their own glory, and not Christs, Phil. 2. 21. This hath been the rub ever since Antichrist was ⟨p. 274⟩first resisted.² Herod could not see how he should be King, if Christ should reign, therefore as the Image-makers cried and stormed when Images should go down,³ alleging that they lived by that craft: so, if you mark what kind of men they were which did preach and write, and labour so hotly against religion, it is they that were like to loose some of their dignities, or their commodities by it.

Therfore Gods sutes haue so hard passage in mens counsailes, iudgements, and Parliaments, because they doe not giue him their harts, which should be the first offering of all; if they woulde giue him their hearts before they sit downe to heare his cause, they could not denie him anie thing that is for his honour, though it were against their profit: but as Christ saieth,¹ Not my will, but thy will: so they would say, It is not our Kingdome, but thy Kingdome; it is not our Church, but thy Church; therefore not our will, but thy will; not our law, but thy law; not our discipline, but thy discipline raigne in it; and all that giue their hearts subscribe to this: the rest say, not thy wil, but our wil; not thy law, but our law; not thy discipline, but our discipline, because as the Apostle sayth, They seeke their owne glorie, and not Christs,