A73175:286
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.
Some say if John be with me, I care not for all the petty gods, because I hold him chief: so another saith if S. Gabriel be with me, I care not for the rest, and some raise great disputations whether this Saint, or that Saint, this Angel, or that Angel be better, whether our Lady of Bullen, or our Lady of Rome be surest; whether S. James of Calais, or S. James of Compostella be strongest and so like beggars which run from door to door, they run from one Saint to another. If one god will not help another will, as though the gods were contrary one to another, and where one bids, the other forbids. So some thought that Venus was a friend to the Trojans, and Pallas was not their friend, as fools think of witches, one strikes and another heals.
Some say if Iohn be with me, I care not for all the pettigods, because I hold him chief: so another saith if S. Gabriell be with me, I care not for the rest, and some raise great disputations whether this Saint, or that Saint, this Angell, or that Angell be better, whether our Lady of Bullen, or our Lady of Rome be surest; whether S. Iames of Callis, or S. Iames of Compostella be strongest and so like beggers which run from doore to doore, they run from one Saint to another. If one god will not helpe another will, as though the gods were contrary one to another, and where one bids, the other forbids. So some thought that Venus was a friend to the Troians, and Pallas was not their friend, as fooles thinke of witches, one strikes and another heales.
Call upon thy God.
Call vpon thy God.
They bid him call upon his God before 1they knew him, but the faithful would not ⟨p. 156⟩