Two sermons preached by Master Henry SmithTvvo sermons preached by Master Henry Smith

Another sort will reply and say, I pray God I never do worse. But to such we must answer; I pray God you may do better: and you should first know whether you do not harm, before you do it. For indeed it must proceed of harm being spoken in doubting without faith; for if you believed that they were laid up in peace, whom you pray for, what need you pray for them at all? But it shows an unbelieving hart, and we know that whatsoever is not of faith, is sin, and the Lord will say of them, who hath required these things at your hands? ¹You have wrought vanities. Now therefore you will not leave it because you used it: then will you say also, we will not leave our lying, nor our swearing, nor our cursing, because we have used it. It will grieve me if I hear you use these speeches hereafter, having no reason nor proof of scripture to maintain it by, or to be your warrant in it: therefore I charge you in the name of God, that you use them not, but rather when you hear this, or any other sin condemned, lay hands upon it, & see that you put it to death without delay, according to the law of God.

Another sort will reply and say, I pray God I neuer doe worse. But to such we must answere; I pray God you may doe better: and you should first know whether you doe not harme, before you doe it. For indeed it must proceede of harme being spoken in doubting without faith; for if you beleeued that they were laid vp in peace, whom you pray for, what neede you pray for them at all? But it shewes an vnbeleeuing hart, and we know that whatsoeuer is not of faith, is sinne, and the Lord will say of them, who hath required these things at your hands? ¹You haue wrought vanities. Now therefore you will not leaue it because you vsed it: then wil you say also, we will not leaue our lying, nor our swearing, nor our cursing, because we haue vsed it. It will grieue me if I heare you vse these speeches heereafter, hauing no reason nor proofe of scripture to maintain it by, or to be your warrāt in it: therfore I charge you in the name of God, that you vse them not, but rather when you heare this, or any other sin condemned, lay hands vpon it, & see that you put it to death without delay, according to the law of God.

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