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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.
Thus Satan persuadeth us as he did Jonah, he saith to us as he said to Christ, if you will fall down and worship me, I will give 1you all things you would have: if you will leave the society, the exercises, the profession, and the company of the children of God, and of the service of God, and serve me, and worship me, in preferring your covetousness, your pride, your envy, your lust, before the service of God, then you shall grow rich, and you shall not be so scrupulous to swear for your gain sometime, or to lye for your pleasure, and to cousin for riches, and ⟨p. 126⟩you shall have good luck, and shall have every thing at your hearts desire. But if we do his will, we shall speed as Jonah did, we shall have the wrath and vengeance of God upon our heads: for he hath nothing to give us, although he makes us believe we shall have great kingdoms. Yes we shall have hell for our reward, which will make all their hearts to ache which receive it, other reward he hath none. So the devil is always a very serviceable and pleasant devil to such as fly from God: he can find occasions at all times, and means and instruments fit for that purpose. If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend you both spurs, and a horse, (yea a post horse) that will carry you swiftly & lustily away unto all vanity and ungodly lusts. But see what Jonah got by his journey, notwithstanding all the furtherances that Satan could work for him, he lost his money, lost his joy, lost his credit, and almost lost his life too. Thus we see in Jonah what it profiteth a man to fly from God, in obeying and practising the evil motions and temptations of Satan in steed of the known will of God, for the very dumb creatures were bent against him for his disobedience: the wind blows as though it would over turn all, the waters roar as though they ⟨p. 127⟩will drown all, the ship reels and tumbles as though she were weary of all, & the mariners cry and cast out their wares apace, as though they would loose all: And yet the wind could not overthrow him, nor the waters drown him, nor the whale eat him; and thus Jonah fled from God but not God from Jonah.
Thus Sathan perswadeth vs as he did Ionah, he saith to vs as he said to Christ, if you will fall downe and worship me, I will giue