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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 &c.
For mine eyes haue seene thy saluation &c.
You may see what deep root sin takes when custom is added unto it, therefore you had need all of you to take my part, for though I and you fight against it never so long, yet some of his darts stick in us still. He which believeth him, doth that which pleaseth him, and he that hath no will to ⟨image 19⟩please him doth that which delights him self, and he that offers him self to be reformed by the word of God is offered in truth. But what, shall I shake off the dust of my feet as a witness against you, and say, let them that will perish, perish? Nay I will rather wash Naaman yet seven times, that I might make him clean if he will be cleansed. If you have no Scripture for it, then think from whence you have received it. If you have no reason for it, then think from whence you have learned it. If you have no example for it, then think whence it first came or sprung unto 1you.
You may see what deepe root sinne takes when custome is added vnto it, therfore you had neede all of you to take my part, for though I and you fight against it neuer so long, yet some of his darts sticke in vs still. He which beleeueth him, doth that which pleaseth him, and he that hath no will to ⟨image 19⟩please him doth that which delites him selfe, and he that offers him selfe to be reformed by the word of God is offred in truth. But what, shall I shake off the dust of my feet as a witnesse against you, and say, let them that will perish, perish? Nay I will rather wash Naaman yet seuen times, that I might make him cleane if he will be cleansed. If you haue no Scripture for it, then thinke frō whence you haue receiued it. If you haue no reason for it, then thinke from whence you haue learned it. If you haue no example for it, thē thinke whence it first came or sprong vnto