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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.
God sent a great wind.
He that made the winds, commanded 1them, and they obey his voice: the wind & the waters obey him, but man will not obey him. He saith not, that a wind arose, but saith, The Lord sent a great wind; then it was not by chance, nor yet by witchcraft, for the mariners (notwithstanding they were infidels) were not so gross as to ascribe it unto any such cause, but rather thought it to be sent from some revenging power, being provoked to indignation by some particular person among them, that had committed some heinous fact: else why did they cast lots, to know him and find him out that had sinned, and whose sin did procure the tempest to be sent? Though this tempest had almost drowned Jonah, yet he saith, the Lord sent it: so the Lord sendeth wind to bring ships to land in safety, and the same Lord sendeth tempests to drown, & break, and sink other ships. Therefore Job said when he was bereft of all his substance at once, and left as poor as might be, that the Lord had taken them from him (which also gave all to him,) adding also a thanksgiving 2even for the persecuting hand of God, which did so molest him. If some had so much loss by tempest as Job, and such danger as Jonah, they would surely say with Job, Blessed be ⟨p. 129⟩the name of the Lord for it.
He that made the windes, commaunded 1them, and they obey his voyce: the wind & the waters obey him, but man will not obey him. He saith not, that a wind arose, but saith, The Lord sent a great wind; then it was not by chance, nor yet by witchcraft, for the mariners (notwithstanding they were infidels) were not so grosse as to ascribe it vnto anie such cause, but rather thought it to be sent from some reuenging power, being prouoked to indignation by some particular person among them, that had committed some hainous fact: else why did they cast lots, to know him and find him out that had sinned, and whose sinne did procure the tempest to be sent? Though this tempest had almost drowned Ionah, yet he saith, the Lord sent it: so the Lord sendeth wind to bring ships to land in safetie, and the same Lord sendeth tempests to drown, & breake, and sincke other ships. Therefore Iob sayd when he was bereft of all his substance at once, and left as poore as might be, that the Lord had taken them from him (which also gaue all to him,) adding also a thāksgiuing