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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.
They cried every man unto his God, and cast ⟨p. 136⟩forth their wares into the sea, &c.
They cryed eueryman vnto his God, and cast ⟨p. 136⟩forth their wares into the sea, &c.
This is no usual matter among mariners, until they plead for life and death, for now or never they must bestir them. Every one unto his God: which showeth that they were of divers nations, for among the Gentiles every nation had a several God whom they worshipped. Chamos was the god of the Moabites, & Beelzebub the god of the Ebronites, Dagon the god of the Philistines, and 1the Ephesians worshipped Diana. When the wicked see that all their inventions will not bring their enterprises to pass according to their mind, but are in extremity, and like to be cast away for want of succour, then they fly unto God being driven by compulsion as a bear unto a stake, and they crouch and kneel, and make great shows outwardly, of humiliation and piety, all in hope of help from God, & as it were thinking to deceive him by their hypocrisy.
This is no vsual matter among mariners, vntill they plead for life and death, for now or neuer they must besturre them. Euery one vnto his God: which sheweth that they were of diuers nations, for among the Gentiles euery natiō had a seuerall God whom they worshipped. Chamos was the god of the Moabites, & Belzebub the god of the Ebronites, Dagon the god of the Philistines, and 1the Ephesians worshipped Diana. Whē the wicked see that all their inuentions will not bring their enterprises to passe according to their minde, but are in extremitie, and like to be cast away for want of succour, thē they flye vnto God being driuen by compulsion as a beare vnto a stake, and they crouch and kneele, and make great shewes outwardly, of humiliation and pietie, all in hope of helpe from God, & as it were thinking to deceaue him by their hypocrisie.