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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.
If they were not deaf, they need not to cry one to another, such is the dumbness of preachers, the deafness of hearers, and the slowness of followers, that there is but little good done, and but a few fruits gathered. If ye were not deaf, we need not to cry: and therefore we cry with mouth, with heart, with hand, with foot, & with all the powers of our bodies unto you, and yet how little do you regard it• But are not ye commanded to hear as well as we to cry? yet the cock croweth when men are fastest asleep, yea the cock croweth, and still Peter denieth 1his master.
If they were not deafe, they need not to crie one to another, such is the dumbnesse of preachers, the deafnesse of hearers, and the slownesse of followers, that there is but litle good done, and but a few frutes gathered. If ye were not deafe, we neede not to crie: and therefore we crie with mouth, with heart, with hand, with foot, & with all the powers of our bodies vnto you, and yet how little do you regard it• But are not ye commanded to heare as well as we to crie? yet the cocke croweth when men are fastest asleepe, yea the cocke croweth, and still Peter denieth 1his maister.
Before you cry unto the Lord, hear what ⟨p. 94⟩the word crieth unto you, and let not your works cry for vengeance while your tongues cry for mercy.
Before you crie vnto the Lord, heare what ⟨p. 94⟩