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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 prayed unto their gods, & their gods were now deaf whiles they were tossed, and Jonah is gone to sleep when he should have been better ⟨p. 144⟩occupied: we come hither to hear the word, and here we fall a sleep, but it were far better we were away, for we sleep when we should hear, and so we sleep in sin: therefore let them now give ear that are a sleep, and think that the shipmaster doth jog us by the elbow as he did Jonah. Now we are come to Jonah his sleeping; not that we should sleep with him, but by his sleeping to be warned of our security, and we shall see him waked, that we may learn to wake with him. By Jonah his sleeping we see the nature of all the sons of Adam, when they listen to the serpent they are like changelings. For when they forget God and his word, and bid conscience adieu, they sleep in sin, and sleep to death like one sick of the lethargy.
THey prayed vnto their gods, & their gods were now deafe whiles they were tossed, and Ionah is gone to sleepe when he should haue bene better ⟨p. 144⟩occupied: we come hither to heare the word, and here we fall a sleepe, but it were farre better we were away, for we sleepe when we should heare, and so we sleepe in sinne: therefore let them now giue eare that are a sleepe, and thinke that the shipmaster doth iogge vs by the elbow as he did Ionah. Now we are come to Ionah his sleeping; not that we should sleepe with him, but by his sleeping to be warned of our securitie, and we shall see him waked, that we may learne to wake with him. By Ionah his sleeping we see the nature of all the sonnes of Adam, whē they listen to the serpēt they are like chāgelings. For when they forget God and his word, and bid conscience adew, they sleepe in sinne, and sleepe to death like one sicke of the lethargie.
Jonah his name signifieth a dove, as I have told you, and it may well be compared, for as the dove being gone out of the Ark could find no rest for the sole of her foot till she returned into the Ark again: so when Jonah rose up from the presence of the Lord, he could find no rest for his mind, neither by sea nor land, until he returned again unto the Lord.