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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.
What shall we do then when the sun shineth? We must not do as we do in the dark, for then men ought to betake them to their labour. Learn of the savage beasts, who as soon as the day springs, betake them to their travel, and every bird welcometh it with many a sweet song.
What shall we do then when the sunne shineth? We must not do as we do in the darke, for then men ought to betake them to their labour. Learne of the sauage beasts, who as soone as the day springs, betake thē to their trauell, and euery bird welcommeth it with many a sweet song.
Christ is light, and this light is come, Therefore he that seeth not now is blind, and he that hears not now is deaf, and he that works not now is maimed. But we will not work holy works according to the word, neither in light nor darkness: we can see to sin in the dark as well as in the light, for the light discovereth both the harlot •• the thieves, for he is afraid of the light: where light is not, Christ is not: but Christ 1is light, and let none be afraid to seek this light which is so good, so excellent, and so profitable for us. For it doth not only deso•e it self, but all other things round about ⟨p. 71⟩it. Therefore if thou hast this light, thy faith, thy fear, thy love will show it self, & good things cannot now hide themselves, for he that is light doth delight to please God in the light. It is no marvel though a man stumble in the dark, but he which stumbleth in the light is not very strong, because he seeth his way before him. Once we stumbled at every straw when we walked in darkness, for then light had a fall, pride had a fall, lust had a fall, drunkenness had a •al, penury had a fall ignorance had a fall: or if you will, pride rose and we fell, lust rose, and we fell, &c.