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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.
They come to Church as Nicodemus came to Christ, 1by night, as if they were ashamed to come to Church: but they run after profit, to get riches, as Gehezi ran 2after Naaman the Syrian to get a bribe.
They come to Church as Nichodemus came to Christ, 1by night, as if they were ashamed to come to Church: but they runne after profit, to get riches, as Gehezi ran 2after Naaman the Syrian to get a bribe.
Thus hath Zaccheus two lets that he could not see Christ, the one in the people, the other in himself: and we have many lets to with-draw us from Christ, some are external, and without us, as the enticements of the world, and some are internal and within us, as the lusts of our own flesh. The press of the people hindereth 1Zaccheus from seeing Christ in his humility, & the multitude of our sins do press us down, that we cannot see Christ in glory. Zaccheus was a man of little stature, and that hindered him from seeing Christ in earth; and we are men of little faith, and that is the cause we cannot behold Christ in heaven.