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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.
Thus you see that no man is willing to die, before his conscience be quieted toward God, and that he can catch some hope of a better life after this life. He which knows that he shall go to Christ, it is impossible that he should die unwillingly: but he which can not hope for a better world, must needs leave this world grudgingly, and fear death more then all the terrors of life. He had rather to be sick and cold, and hungry, and want and beg, then go with death, because he knoweth what he suffereth here, but he knoweth not what he shall suffer hereafter. Therefore he which is not willing to be dissolved, hath not •earned Christ yet as Paul did, for no man ⟨p. 525⟩esteem this life when he begins to taste of the next,1 but then the love of the world doth fall from him like the mantle of Elijah when he was rapt into heaven.
Thus you see that no man is willing to die, before his conscience bee quieted towarde God, and that he can catch some hope of a better life after this life. He which knowes that he shall go to Christ, it is impossible that he should die vnwillingly: but he which can not hope for a better world, must needs leaue this world grudginglie, and feare death more then all the terrors of life. He had rather to be sicke and cold, and hungry, and want and beg, then go with death, because he knoweth what he suffereth here, but hee knoweth not what he shall suffer hereafter. Therefore he which is not willing to be dissolued, hath not •earned Christ yet as Paul did, for no man ⟨p. 525⟩esteeme this life when he begins to taste of the next,1 but then the loue of the world doth fall from him like the mantle of Elias when he was rapt into heauen.