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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.
For mine eyes have seen thy salvation.
For mine eyes haue seene thy saluation.
Because the holy Ghost by inspiration had declared unto him, that he should not die till he had seen Jesus Christ, therefore the same spirit led him to the temple, & showed him that which it promised, & having seen the same he desireth and wisheth to die, and be released from this earthly prison, that he might live with God. As idle & evil wishes are vain, because they are not according to faith, nor grounded upon the word of God: so though we ask as cunningly as Jacob, and as earnestly as the sons of Zebedee, yet if we ask not in faith according to knowledge, 1we can not obtain, for we must ask so that we may receive, that we may not return empty.
Because the holy Ghost by inspiration had declared vnto him, that he should not die til he had seene Iesus Christ, therfore the same spirit led him to the temple, & shewed him that which it promised, & hauing seene the same he desireth and wisheth to die, and be released from this earthly prison, that he might liue with God. As idle & euil wishes are vaine, because they are not according to faith, nor grounded vpon the word of God: so though we aske as cunningly as Iacob, and as earnestly as the sonnes of Zebede, yet if we aske not in faith according to knowledge, 1we can not obtaine, for we must aske so that we may receiue, that we may not returne emptie.
- 1Mar. 10.