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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 REBELLION OF JONAH, IN TWO SERMONS.THE REBELLION OF IONAH, IN TWO SERMONS.
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.
When God sends criers unto a people, it is a most manifest sign that their wickedness is come up before him, which doth cause him thus to exclaim against them, and then if they will not repent while Gods criers continue crying amongst them, the Lord of hosts will rise up in arms against them.
When God sends criers vnto a people, it is a most manifest signe that their wickednesse is come vp before him, which doth cause him thus to exclaime against them, and then if they wil not repent while Gods criers continue crying amongst them, the Lord of hosts will rise vp in armes against them.
I showed you the Ninevites sins in a scroll, to see how they go in ranks up to heaven, thereby to show to the daughters of Nineveh, that wealth and wickedness go together, prosperity and security kiss each other: and yet the world tempts, and the flesh yields afore we sin.
I shewed you the Niniuites sinnes in a scroll, to see how they go in rankes vp to heauen, thereby to shew to the daughters of Niniuie, that wealth and wickednesse go together, prosperitie and securitie kisse each other: and yet the world tempts, and the flesh yeelds afore we sinne.
To them which ask how our sins ascend and fly up until they come before the presence of God, I answer, that God here speaks unto us after the manner of men, who can not see a thing afore it be brought nigh unto them, even where they are.
To them which aske how our sinnes ascend and flie vp vntil they come before the presence of God, I answere, that God here speakes vnto vs after the maner of men, who can not see a thing afore it be brought nigh vnto them, euen where they are.