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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
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 second thing was Jonah, who being no Gentile but an Israelite, which knew his masters will what it was, did yet presumptuously neglect the same, not of a sudden desire, for he had time enough to consider what he did, and yet see what mercy did: the Lord prepared a great whale in the bottom of the sea, where there was no hope of life for him: afterwards the Lord having delivered him out of the whales belly, he went and preached at Nineveh so zealously, as though he had never been the man which was so disobedient before. And when he had done, he murmured against God worse than ever he did, and all because he spared the city.
The second thing was Ionah, who being no Gentile but an Israelite, which knew his maisters will what it was, did yet presumptuously neglect the same, not of a sudden desire, for he had time inough to consider what he did, and yet see what mercie did: the Lord prepared a great whale in the bottome of the sea, where there was no hope of life for him: afterwards the Lord hauing deliuered him out of the whales bellie, he went and preached at Niniuie so zealously, as though he had neuer bene the man which was so disobedient before. And when he had done, he murmured against God worse thē euer he did, and all because he spared the citie.
The third thing was, the mariners which had been idolaters all their lives, yet now by the great power of God moving them, called upon the true God, of whom they had heard by Jonah, & by whose mighty power ⟨image 45⟩they were saved.
The third thing was, the mariners which had bene idolaters all their liues, yet now by the great power of God mouing them, called vpon the true God, of whom they had heard by Ionah, & by whose mightie power ⟨image 45⟩they were saued.