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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.
I showed you how many despised this jewel because they know not what it is worth▪ how few Simeons there be in the Ten ple, how few Nathanaels, how few men that fear God, these plants grow not on every ⟨image 24⟩ground. Who would be unthankful if he knew what the Lord gives and what he forgives, he gives the son for the bastard the Lord for the servant, the righteous for sinners, the innocent for the wicked, and the almighty Lord for the sinful sons of men. Do you not marvel how you can offend this Lord willingly, which hath done so much for you. Here I reprove unthankfulness, security, and negligence, striving as it were to crucify Christ again, as the wicked Jews did, who never prospered since the time that they said, his blood be upon us and upon 1our seed. They were not like Simeon, who as soon as he saw him embraced him, and rejoiced over him. There is no show of grace in them which show no liking of godliness, neither in them selves nor in others: for this is the first part of our conversion, to love them that love God, and so they are drawn to the Sonne. No man will build an Ark until the •loud come, no man will seek for 2corn until the famine come, and scarce Lot 3will be gone out of Sodom before the time of execution of Gods wrath do come upon them. We preach unto you and call upon you, we have even wearied our selves among you, we have reproved you for sin, and we must still reprove you until you ⟨p. 41⟩amend: now therefore if there be any grace in you, if ye have any knowledge, any fear of God in you, if you have any goodness in you, if you have any leisure to be saved, turn back now from doing evil, come out of hell, and pluck your limbs out of the clutches of the serpent, for verily we have not done so well in this city as the Ninevites did for all the preaching and teaching we have had. For who hath determined in his heart to amend his life? who hath left his pride? who hath restored that which he hath taken by extortion, usury, & wrong? surely they that have done thus are monsters, I can not see him, he walketh invisible and can not be found.