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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.
This the Prophet Daniel would signify, that the King lived in ease as he lived before, and pleased himself in vanity still for all his warnings, and turned his time of repentance to sin again.
This the Prophet Daniel would signifie, that the King liued in ease as he liued before, and pleased himselfe in vanitie still for all his warnings, and turned his time of repentance to sinne againe.
Therefore God would defer the time no longer, but cut him down, like the barren and fruitless fig tree, to teach us to take mercy when it is offered, and repent while we have time and space, and that if GOD speak unto us but once, to lay it up in our hearts for ever, not looking or expecting to be spoken to again, because GOD is not bound to admonish or give us any warning at all.
Therefore God would deferre the time no longer, but cut him downe, like the barren and fruitlesse figge tree, to teach vs to take mercie when it is offered, and repent while wee haue time and space, and that if GOD speake vnto vs but once, to lay it vp in our hearts for euer, not looking or expecting to be spoken to againe, because GOD is not bound to admonish or giue vs any warning at all.
One would have thought that Nebuchadnezzar would have remembered his warning while he had lived, which had such a strange and fearful Dream, and after that another dream, being no less strange and fearful than the former dream to confirm it, and after such a Prophet to expound it, and the exposition of it threatening such a miserable ruin and downfall unto himself.
One woulde haue thought that Nabuchadnezzar woulde haue remembred his warning while hee had liued, which had such a strange and fearefull Dreame, and after that another dreame, being no lesse strange and fearefull than the former dreame to confirme it, and after such a Prophet to expound it, and the exposition of it threatning such a miserable ruine and downfall vnto himselfe.