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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
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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.
Nimrod thought that Babel should get him ⟨p. 445⟩a name, Gen. 11. but God resisted his pride, & the name of his building was called Confusion ever since. Nebuchadnezzar built his palace for his honour, Dan. 4. but God resisted his pride, and his palace spued him out when his servants remained in it. Shebna builded a sepulchre for his memorial, Esa. 22. but GOD resisted his pride, and buried him in another Country, where he had no sepulchre provided. Herod hoped when the people cried at his words, It is the voice of God, that he should be worshipped ever after as God, but God resisted his pride, and before he descended from his throne, the worms so defaced his pomp, that none which called him God would be like unto him: so when women take more pains to dress themselves, then they do all the day after, and pay dearer to maintain one vice, than they need to learn all virtues, they think to please men by it: but God resisteth their pride, and all that see them though they cap and curtsy to them, yet they judge worse of them, and think that they would not wear these signs of lightness and pride, unless they were light and proud indeed. Thus if their apparel condemn them before men, how will it condemn them before GOD? If sin did not blind them, would they so deceive themselves to take the contrary way, and think that should honour ⟨p. 446⟩them which disgraceth other?1 But as Balaam was stopped & knew not who stopped him: so they are resisted, and know not who resisteth them. Though they do all to please, yet they can please none: they please not God, for God resisteth them; they please not the humble, for the humble are contrary to them; they please not the proud, for the proud do envy them which strive to be as proud as they: they please not themselves, because they cannot be so proud and brave as they would be: only they please the devil, because their pride doth entitle him to them.
Nimrod thought that Babel should get him ⟨p. 445⟩