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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.
THE TRUE TRIAL OF THE SPIRITS.THE TRVE TRIAL OF THE SPIRITES.
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.
How joyful and glad was Lydia when she could draw Paul and Silas to her house?1 If you think me to be faithful (saith she) come to my house: showing, that never any guests were so welcome to her house before. How tender was the Shunamite over Elisha, that ⟨p. 302⟩she built an house to welcome him,2 and to keep him with her; thinking all the places in her house too bad for him, she built him a new room, to make him stay with her. How much did the Galatians make of Paul,3 that he saith, they would pull out their own eyes to do him good: So once a Prophet was esteemed like a Prophet. And hath he bid you despise them now, which bad you to honour them before? No, Paul chargeth us to receive our teachers, as he was received himself: saying, He which laboureth in the word, is worthy of double honour; 4that is, the Preacher (after a sort) is more to be honoured than the Ruler: for Aaron was the elder brother, but Moses was the younger brother; & therefore if there be any appendix, the Magistrate is the appendix:5 for if Aaron's Urim & Thummim would have served, Moses rod and staff should not have needed; but when the tongue could not persuade, the rod did compel, and so came in the Magistrate. As Paul showeth the Thessalonians how the Preachers of the Word should be honoured: so he teacheth the Philippians how to honour their teachers;6 saying, Receive him in the Lord with great gladness, and make much of such; that is, show your selves so glad of him, that he may be glad of you. Have you need to be taught ⟨p. 303⟩why Paul would have you make much of such? Because they are like Lamps, which consume themselves to give light to other; so they consume themselves to give light to you: because they are like a Hen, which clocketh her Chickens together from the Kite; so they clock you together from the Serpent: because they are like the shout which did beat down the walls of Jericho;