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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.
These are the faint spies, that went to see the land of Canaan, which say, that journey is farther then you are able to go all your life, the way is like a thicket, and the door like a needle's eye, therefore it is impossible for you to come thither. But when you send faith, hope, and love (those messengers of peace and truth) they will bring you word saying, your ruffs must be ruffled, and your farthingales crushed, and none shall be kept out, but such as love the world better then ⟨p. 105⟩heaven, or such as will take their sins with them: for that it is not the fashion of that country; but we must leave them like the shadow when we go into the door, and we must shake hands with them, and bid them fare-well.
These are the faint spies, that went to see the land of Canaan, which say, that iourney is farther then you are able to go all your life, the way is like a thicket, and the doore like a needels eye, therefore it is impossible for you to come thither. But when you send faith, hope, and loue (those messengers of peace and truth) they will bring you word saying, your ruffes must be ruffled, and your fardingales crusht, and none shall be kept out, but such as loue the world better then ⟨p. 105⟩heauen, or such as wil take their sinnes with them: for that it is not the fashion of that countrey; but we must leaue them like the shadow when we go into the doore, and we must shake hands with them, and bid them fare-well.
Now it followeth how Jonah fled to Tarshish. We can not stand to speak of Tarshish, nor what it is to fly from God, but how Jonah was sent to Nineveh, and how he went to Tarshish, this shall be our meditation. Jonah the Prophet was commanded to go to Nineveh, and there to cry out against sin, to preach against pride, and all kind of ungodliness, thereby to reclaim them & stir them up in laying open their sin, and the punishment which hanged over them, that they might speedily repent, and so turn away from them the wrath of God thereby deserved. What a happy message was this? and what a happy thing for Nineveh, that the Lord would vouchsafe them so great mercy? O but still one fly or other mars the whole box of ointment: as soon as he was