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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.
I Have chose a Text which is the sum of the Bible. For all Scripture runneth upon Christ like the Title of a book, because he is Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end of mans salvation:1 therefore he is figured in the Law, foretold in the Prophets, and fulfilled in the Gospel. Some places point to his Divinity, some to his humanity, some to his Kingdom, some to his Priesthood, some to his Prophecy, some to his Conception, some to his Birth, some to his life, some to his miracles, some to his Passion, some to his Resurrection, some to his Ascension, some to his Glorification; all point to the Saviour, like John Baptist,2 when he said, This is ⟨p. 324⟩the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world. Therefore learn Christ, and learn all. Now to teach us how we should hear, and how we should love, and how we should fear, and how we should believe, and how we should follow Christ, that we may know when we have learned him: the Apostle saith, Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ: as though this word did contain all our duties unto Christ, to put him on: (which seems to be the level of this phrase, if you mark how it cometh in) for before Paul saith, Cast away the works of darkness, 3and put on the armour of light: then he nameth the works of darkness which we should cast off, that is,4 gluttony, drunkenness, strife, envy, chambering, wantonness; after he nameth the armour of light,5 which we should put on, and calleth it by the name of the giver, The Lord Jesus Christ. In stead of gluttony, and drunkenness, and strife, and chambering, and wantonness, and other patches of the Devil, wherewith man clotheth himself as with a Garment; the Apostle giveth him an other Garment,6 which he calleth Jesus Christ: he doth not oppose virtue to vice, as one would think when he had said, Cast off gluttony, he should have said, Put on sobriety: when he had said, Cast off wantonness,