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…

There is a thing which followeth sin, which Job calleth a rod,¹ which the sinner never thinketh of, before he have done. When the child hath faulted, then he is beaten: so now Noah hath sinned, he must be beaten: first he is stripped naked, after he is scourged; wine putteth off his clothes, and then Ham cometh & lasheth him: to show, that wine can both cheer the hart, and grieve the hart. As the forbidden tree when it promised our parents knowledge,² took their knowledge from them: so every sin giveth other wages then it promiseth. Little thought Noah that wine would make him naked: but now he is naked and stripped too, as though he were first stripped and then whipped. He which believed the threatening (like Lot) when others mocked,³ he which escaped the flood when others were drowned, he to whom all the fowls of the air, and the beasts of the earth flocked in couples, as they did to Adam, he which was reserved to declare the judgements of GOD,⁴ and begin the world again; Noah, the example of temperance, the example of moderation, the example of sobriety, lieth naked in his Tent for drinking the wine which he himself hath ⟨p. 600⟩planted: the operation of wine was drunkenness, the sequel of drunkenness was nakedness, the effect of nakedness was derision. As the Serpents sting is in his tail, so the end of sin is bitterness, least he should love the vice wherewith he was once defiled, as they which are once drunk, hardly get out of the cellar. God giveth him a Memorandum like Jacobs limping, that he was never drunken after, but learned temperance of intemperance: therefore it is good a little to feel the sting of sin, that we may handle it like a hornet.

There is a thing which followeth sinne, which Iob calleth a rod,¹ which the sinner neuer thinketh of, before he haue done. When the childe hath faulted, then he is beaten: so now Noah hath sinned, he must bee beaten: first he is stript naked, after he is scourged; wine putteth off his cloathes, and then Cham commeth & lasheth him: to shew, that wine can both cheere the hart, and grieue the hart. As the forbidden tree when it promised our parents knowledge,