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Two sermons preached by Master Henry SmithTvvo sermons preached by Master Henry Smith
Two sermons preached by Master Henry Smith: with a prayer for the morning thereunto adjoined. And published by a more perfect copy then heretoforeTvvo sermons preached by Master Henry Smith: with a prayer for the morning thereunto adioyned. And published by a more perfect copy then heeretofore
London: printed by William Hall for William Leake, 1610
THE SWEET SONG OF OLD FATHER SIMEON, in two Sermons. › Sermon
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And said. He joyfully praising God spake, yea sweetly as it were sung it. Though you sing all Davids Psalms over, and have not Davids spirit, it profiteth nothing: and though David was heard when he sung them, yet you cannot be heard. Therefore let us pray so, that our prayers may be heard. But we cannot with the heart, & so that 1we may be heard pray, if we turn away our ears from the word: for so doing, whatsoever prayers we make, they are abominable. Therefore let us hear so, that hearing we may profit by it. Let us not hear still so unprofitably as we were wont to do: if we do, it shall be required at our hands. Do you think you shall never be called to account of that which J have preached unto you, and therefore as soon as ye are gone out of this place, all is shut up, and all is forgotten; God is exempted from your minds? Our Saviour Christ saith, the word I speak unto you shall judge you at the last day. Mary is commended ⟨image 25⟩2for that she heard our Saviour very diligently, laying up his words in her hart, & Jacob was wiser then all his children, in that he remembered the dream of Joseph until he saw it fulfilled. Those that love the Lord with an unfeigned love, do gladly hear his voice and become obedient. My sheep hear my voice, saith Christ: & they that love 3the Ark as David did, will dance about the Ark as David did, and that with joy and gladness. Isaac was a good man, his name signified laughter, whereby was showed what joy and laughter there should be about Christ Jesus, for he was the figure, the truth was Christ himself. The Virgin sung when she knew that she should bear 4him, the Angels sung joyfully when he was borne, and Simeon sung when he was brought into the Temple.
And said. He ioyfully praising God spake, yea sweetly as it were sung it. Though you sing all Dauids Psalmes ouer, and haue not Dauids spirit, it profiteth nothing: and though Dauid was heard when he sung them, yet you cannot be heard. Therefore let vs pray so, that our prayers may be heard. But we cannot with the heart, & so that