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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.
Simeon had seen many things in his days, but when he saw Christ, he was unwilling to live any longer to see more, but like the hart which panteth with desiring after the 1water brooks: so he longed so long, till he had seen with his eyes the Saviour of the world, and then he so thirsted for death, that he sought nothing else. And thus they that hunger after righteousness are satisfied and 2filled.
Simeon had seene many things in his dayes, but when he saw Christ, he was vnwilling to liue any longer to see more, but like the hart which panteth with desiring after the 1water brookes: so he longed so long, till he had seene with his eyes the Sauiour of the world, and then he so thirsted for death, that he sought nothing else. And thus they that hunger after righteousnesse are satisfied and 2filled.
It is enough for me (saith Jacob) that my ⟨image 10⟩1son Joseph liveth: so let us be satisfied with 2this, that our saviour Christ liveth, & where he is thither shall we come. I would go saith one, through heat and cold, through health and sickness, and through all kind of miseries, that I might hunger after God and after his righteousness. They that bear the cross of Christ have all the marks of Christs Disciples. None are so well fed as they which went with Christ into the wilderness, and