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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 FALL OF KING Nebuchadnezzar.THE FALL OF KING Nabuchadnezzar.
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.
Therefore ye shall see Nebuchadnezzar upon his feet again: before you beheld him upon his knees, that when ye see what a king he was in his galleries, & after find his servants in his palace, and his subjects in his throne, and himself like a beast in the wilderness, God may give you hearts to think a little of this sin, what it is which cost so dear, and is so common, now in every house, as it was then in the kings court.
Therfore ye shall see Nabuchadnezzar vpon his feete againe: before you behelde him vpon his knees, that when ye see what a king he was in his galleries, & after find his seruāts in his pallace, and his subiects in his throane, and himselfe like a beast in the wildernesse, God may giue you hearts to thinke a little of this sinne, what it is which cost so deare, and is so common, now in euery house, as it was then in the kings court.
After twelve months (saith Daniel) that is, twelve months after God had warned this king by dreams and by Daniel, to repent his sins, he was strutting in his galleries, and thought what sin should be next, as though he had never heard of dream or Prophet.
After twelue moneths (saith Daniel) that is, twelue moneths after God had warned this king by dreames and by Daniel, to repent his sinnes, he was strouting in his galleries, and thought what sin should be next, as though he had neuer heard of dreame or Prophet.
By this computation of sin, wherein the months are observed so exactly, how long Nebuchadnezzar rebelled after he was warned, Daniel shows what reckoning GOD keeps of our months, and weeks, and days, which he gives us to repent, as he did Nebuchadnezzar, and what an account we shall make of them, as Nebuchadnezzar did, though we count no more of our age then the child doth of his youth, and have done no more of our task at twenty, then when we were but ten, nor at thirty, then when we were but twenty, nor at forty, then when we were thirty, yet we shall give account of mo