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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.
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.
Thus hath Zaccheus two lets that he could not see Christ, the one in the people, the other in himselfe: and we haue many lets to with-draw vs from Christ, some are externall, and without vs, as the inticements of the world, and some are internall and within vs, as the lusts of our owne flesh. The prease of the people hindereth 1Zaccheus from seeing Christ in his humility, & the multitude of our sinnes doe presse vs downe, 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 heauen.
Though Zaccheus was a man of little stature, yet it appeareth that he was not a man of little wit. For when he could not come to the sight of Christ for the multitude, he had the wit to run before, and to climb up into a tree to obtain his purpose. And for the most part it falleth out, that men of low stature, are men of high conceit, and the shortest bodies, have the sharpest wits, God so providing, that the defects of their bodies might be supplied with the gifts of their mind. Now Zaccheus that before was loth to move his foot from the custom-house, for losing his profit, begins to run after Christ for fear of a greater loss, like Eliza that left his ploughing, and ran after Elijah to follow his new vocation. But Zaccheus doth not only run, but also climb up into a tree to see Christ: A strange thing that Zaccheus a rich man, and a chief customer, should behave