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…

Come with me saith he, and I will show you my Father naked: they say it is an evil bird which will defile his own nest: so it is an evil son that will shame his own father, he should have covered his fathers nakedness so soon as he saw it, lest his brethren should see it too, but he was ready to make it worse, like them which hear a suspicion and make it a report, he should have taken the beam out of his own eye, when he spied a moat in his fathers eye: but as the eye seeth all things, and cannot see it self, so we can see others mens faults but not our own.¹ When Agur had considered the follies of others, he considered his own follies, and said, I am more foolish then any man: When Judah had considered Tamar's sins,² he considered his own and said, She is more righteous then I. But when Ham did see a fault in his father, all his own faults were hid under a bushel, he cared not that he was his father, nor that he was saved for his righteousness, nor that he had planted a Vineyard for him and his brethren, nor that he was never drunken before, nor that he had committed greater sins himself, but like them which make their sport, that which should be their sorrow, ⟨p. 605⟩so he laughed at that which might make him weep. Often did I well might Noah say, and thou didst never honour me for that: but once did I evil, and for that thou wouldest shame me.

Come with me saith he, and I will shew you my Father naked: they say it is an euill bird which will defile his own nest: so it is an euill sonne that will shame his owne father, he should haue couered his fathers nakednesse so soone as he saw it, lest his brethren should see it too, but he was readie to make it worse, like them which heare a suspition and make it a report, he should haue taken the beame out of his owne eye, when he spied a moate in his fathers eye: but as the eye seeth all things, and cannot see it selfe, so wee can see others mens faults but not our owne.¹ When Agur had considered the follies of others, he considered his owne follies, and said, I am more foolish then any man: When Iudah had considered Thamars sinnes,²