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…

When Jesus ⟨p. 496⟩was in banishment with Mary & Joseph, at last the Angel came and said,¹ They are dead which sought the child's life: so when the days of our banishment and scarcity, & bondage, and sickness are ended,² at last tidings shall come that our troubles are dead, and then the righteous shall look up like Moses, when he was past the sea, and see all their enemies, all their troubles drowned behind them; then the heart shall dance like Miriam, and sing the song which sounded before Moses:³ The Lord, the Lord is strong, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, but abundant in goodness and truth. And if David had stayed at troubles, and spoken of nothing but rods, the wicked might say as they do in the 115. Psalm.⁴ Where is their God? and the righteous might complain with David,⁵ I have cleansed my heart in vain: but as the waters of the sea flow & ebb again, so the waters of affliction flow & ebb again, one casteth Moses into the water, and another draweth him out of the water. There lieth Lazarus at the gate, there lieth Joseph in prison, there lies Jeremiah in the dungeon, there lies Job in the Ashes, there lies Jacob in the fields, there lies David in the wilderness, there lies Abraham in exile, there lies Daniel among the Lions, there lies the children in the Furnace:⁶ at last comes the year of Jubilee, and all the prisoners ⟨p. 497⟩of the Lord are set at liberty, therefore they are called the prisoners of hope, because they may hope to be delivered, &c. Therefore God translateth his Cross from the head to the heart, from the heart to the foot, from poverty to sickness, from sickness to labour: that wheresoever he placeth it, we might have patience,