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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.
Pride hath been the deviser of all these vanities, which now neither shame nor laws nor preaching can take away: therefore had we not need to show you, how God resisteth ⟨p. 437⟩this vice, that careth not for any else? Who can tell how this weed groweth, seeing we have nothing to be proud of, but more cause to be ashamed of our selves, and fly from the face of God and man too,1 then Adam our father had? we were earth, we are flesh, and we shall be worms meat: what cause hath earth, or flesh, or worms meat to be proud? We are borne in sin, we live in misery, we shall die in corruption: what cause hath sin, or misery, or corruption to puff us, but to humble us? there is nothing good which we are proud of, but a wise man is ashamed of the same things whereof we boast. It is a wonder to see, how a gay coat, or a gold ring, or a wrought handkerchief can brave a mans mind, that he thinks better of himself that day when he weareth them, then any day else, and speaks and walks, and looks after another fashion then he did before?
Pride hath been the deuiser of all these vanities, which now neither shame nor lawes nor preaching can take away: therefore had we not need to shew you, how God resisteth ⟨p. 437⟩this vice, that careth not for any else? Who can tell how this weede groweth, seeing wee haue nothing to be proud of, but more cause to be ashamed of our selues, and flie from the face of God and man too,1 then Adam our father had? we were earth, we are flesh, and we shall bee wormes meate: what cause hath earth, or flesh, or wormes meate to be proud? We are borne in sinne, we liue in miserie, we shal die in corruption: what cause hath sinne, or miserie, or corruption to puffe vs, but to humble vs? there is nothing good which we are proud of, but a wise man is ashamed of the same things whereof we boast. It is a wonder to see, how a gay coate, or a gold ring, or a wrought handkerchiefe can braue a mans minde, that he thinkes better of himselfe that day when he weareth them, then any day els, and speakes and walkes, and lookes after another fashion then he did before?