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Six sermons preachedSixe sermons preached
Six sermons preached by Master Henry Smith at Clement Danes Church without Temple bar. With two prayers of the same author hereunto annexed.Sixe sermons preached by Maister Henry Smith at Clement Danes Church without Temple barre. VVith tvvo prayers of the same author hereunto annexed.
London: printed by Richard for Robert Dexter, 1592
THE SECOND SERMON OF THE SONG OF OLD FATHER SIMEON. › Which thou hast prepared.
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.
The seventh figure was Rahab a harlot 1in Jericho, who was a Gentile, yet her heart was touched so, that she received and entertained the spies that Israel sent, and in the time of danger hid them, that they should take no harm, signifying thereby, that the ⟨p. 64⟩Gentiles should receive & embrace the true Israelites and messengers of the Gospel, and keep them as safely, and defend them as diligently as Rahab did the spies of Israel.
The seuenth figure was Rahab a harlot 1in Iericho, who was a Gentile, yet her heart was touched so, that she receiued and entertained the spies that Israell sent, and in the time of danger hid them, that they should take no harme, signifying thereby, that the ⟨p. 64⟩Gentiles should receiue & imbrace the true Israelites and messengers of the Gospel, and keepe them as safely, and defend them as diligently as Rahab did the spies of Israell.
The eight figure was Ruth a Moabite, of her Christ Jesus vouchsafed to come as 1concerning the flesh, to show that he came not only of the Jews and for the Jews, but also of and for the Gentiles, which were the lost sheep, unhoped for, being strangers from the covenant.