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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 Jews would not hear the word of God by Jonah, and therefore the Lord sent to Nineveh, signifying thereby that the Jews for their contempt and negligence should be rejected, and the Gentiles should be received into the favour of God, that they might be an holy & sanctified people unto the Lord in their stead. Their sin is noted in this, that they sinned even until the Prophets were gone from them. Therefore this was as it were to shake off the dust of their feet to witness against them for their obstinacy and hardness of heart, and to let them see that the wickedest Gentiles were more righteous then they, that they repented at the voice of one Prophet, yea & with one sermon: whereas they refused & resisted all the holy and worthy Prophets that God sent unto them.
The Iewes would not heare the word of God by Ionah, and therfore the Lord sent to Niniuie, signifying thereby that the Iewes for their contempt and negligence should be reiected, and the Gentiles should be receyued into the fauour of God, that they might be an holie & sanctified people vnto the Lord in their stead. Their sinne is noted in this, that they sinned euen vntill the Prophets were gone from them. Therefore this was as it were to shake off the dust of their feet to witnesse against them for their obstinacie and hardnesse of heart, and to let them see that the wickedest Gentiles were more righteous then they, that they repented at the voice of one Prophet, yea & with one sermon: whereas they refused & resisted all the holy and worthy Prophets that God sent vnto them.
Again, the calling of the Gentiles is declared in this their submission with all willingness, which they did show unto the words of this prophet whereas: the Jews rejected all the words of God, and would not hear the Prophets, whom God had raised up amongst them, which made those Ninevites ⟨p. 88⟩to proclaim a fast, to put on sackcloth and to humble themselves before the Lord, desiring him to turn away his wrath from their city? Thus they repented, and repenting were saved with mercy: so they which grieve the spirit, quench the spirit, for the word of God went from Samaria to Nineveh.