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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.
A most heavy and grievous thing it is if you knew what you are doing here, and what your sins are doing at the bar of Gods just judgement. For even now before you came hither, you were serving the devil in sin, but now it is too late to speak of it, and where are they now? flesh and blood could not stay them, nature could not stay them, pleasures could not stay them, riches could not stay them, nor it could not stay it self, but it is ascended up before the face of the eternal God, to stand at this bar and cry for vengeance to fall upon us, for committing such heinous sins against the majesty of God.
A most heauie and grieuous thing it is if you knew what you are doing here, and what your sinnes are doing at the barre of Gods iust iudgement. For euen now before you came hither, you were seruing the deuil in sinne, but now it is too late to speake of it, and where are they now? flesh and blood could not stay them, nature could not stay them, pleasures could not stay them, riches could not stay them, nor it could not stay it selfe, but it is ascēded vp before the face of the eternall God, to stand at this barre and crie for vengeance to fall vpon vs, for committing such hainous sinnes against the maiestie of God.
An arrow is swift, the Sun is swifter, but sin is swifter then all: for in a moment it is judged in heaven, punished in hell, and ⟨p. 101⟩ranging upon the earth. Nimrod could not reach to heaven, but his sins could reach to heaven. Our sins ascend like the tower of Nimrod, but they fall to confusion like 1Babel.
An arrow is swift, the Sunne is swifter, but sinne is swifter then all: for in a moment it is iudged in heauen, punished in hell, and ⟨p. 101⟩ranging vpon the earth. Nemrod could not reach to heauen, but his sinnes could reach to heauen. Our sinnes ascend like the tower of Nemrod, but they fall to confusion like