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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 7. Type or figure was the vision of 1Peter in Joppa, when he was on the top of the house, where he saw the vessel come down that had in it all manner of four footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and fowls of the air, and creeping things, where also the voice said unto him, Arise Peter, kill and eat: wherein the Lord showed unto him, that he should count no man unclean, although the Gentiles then were counted unclean, as were the unclean beasts set down in the law of God, and therefore when Peter was sent for to Cornelius house, he said, Of a truth I perceive 2that God hath no respect of persons, but in every nation he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness is accepted of him. Many other examples of our calling, as the strayed sheep, the lost groat, the prodigal son, and Christ eating with publicans and sinners, which when we read we should cast our figure and say, of whom is this spoken? of the gentiles? then it is of me, for I am a gentile. But am I converted? If I be not then have I not fulfilled this prophecy, therefore ⟨p. 68⟩let us strive to do well, and to mortify and subdue sin which dwelleth in our mortal bodies: for none but the valiant can enter into the kingdom of heaven.
The 7. Tipe or figure was the vision of 1Peter in Ioppa, when he was on the top of the house, where he saw the vessel come downe that had in it all maner of foure footed beasts of the earth, and wilde beasts, and foules of the aire, and creeping things, where also the voice said vnto him, Arise Peter, kill and eat: wherein the Lord shewed vnto him, that he should count no man vncleane, although the Gentiles then were counted vncleane, as were the vncleane beasts set downe in the law of God, and therefore when Peter was sent for to Cornelius house, he said, Of a truth I perceiue 2that God hath no respect of persons, but in euerie nation he that feareth God, and worketh righteousnesse is accepted of him. Manie other examples of our calling, as the straied sheepe, the lost groate, the prodigall sonne, and Christ eating with publicanes and sinners, which when we reade we should cast our figure and saie, of whom is this spoken? of the gentiles? then it is of me, for I am a gentile. But am I conuerted? If I be not thē haue I not fulfilled this prophesie, therfore