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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
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.
Go to Nineveh.
Goe to Niniuie.
The Jews would not hear the wood of God by Jonah, and therefore the Lord sent him to Nineveh. They that grieve the spirit, quench the spirit. Then goes the Prophet from Samaria to Nineveh. The word was in Samaria, it went thence to Nineveh: the Gospel was at Ephesus, it is come into England: it is gone out of the City, 1but it may depart from England again. If any think that he standeth, let him take heed left he fall.
The Iewes would not heare the wod of God by Ionah, and therefore the Lord sent him to Niniuie. They that griue the spirit, quench the spirit. Then goes the Prophet from Samaria to Niniuie. The word was in Samaria, it went thence to Niniuie: the Gospell was at Ephesus, it is come into England: it is gone out of the Citie, 1but it may depart from England againe. If any thinke that he standeth, let him take heede left he fall.
But the Prophet goes from Samaria to Nineveh, that was, both to shake off the dust of his feet, to witness against them their obstinacy and hardness of heart: and secondly, to let them see that the wicked Gentiles were more righteous then they, in that they repented at the voice of one Prophet; yea and that with one sermon: whereas themselves refused, and resisted all the holy and worthy Prophets that God sent unto them. And thirdly, it may be to signify, that the Jews for their contempt and negligence should be rejected: and the Gentiles should be received into the favour of God, that they might be an holy and sanctified people unto the Lord in their trouble.