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…

You put on Christ first, when you are baptized: then you were sealed and consecrated to his service: so soon as you came into the world, you vowed to renounce the world and follow God. How many have put on Christ thus, and since have put him off again? which ⟨p. 343⟩have broken the first promise that ever they made,¹ and were never faithful to God since. You put on Christ again,² when you are called and sanctified; that is, when you cast off the old man, which is corrupt with the lusts of the flesh, the pride of life, and the cares of this world; and put on the new man, which is regenerate in righteousness & holiness, to the Image of Christ, or likeness of Adam in his innocency:³ for to put on the new man, is to become a new man, as if thou were borne again, and conceived of the holy Ghost. Of this Job speaketh when he saith,⁴ I put on Justice, ⁵and it covered me. You put on Christ again, when you receive his holy Sacrament, and are partakers of his body and blood, that is, the merits of his obedience and passion by Faith, which heareth him as if she did see him, and seeth him as if she did feel him▪ and feeleth him as if she did taste him, and tasteth him as if she did digest him, then Christ is become yours, and dwelleth in you, and feedeth you with his grace to eternal life, as the bread and wine sustaineth the life present. Lastly, when you have put on Christ in these three sorts,⁶ which is your Garment for this world;⁷ after you shall put on Christ in heaven, and be clothed with his glory, and that shall be your last vesture, which shall never wear out.