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

Isaiah was commanded to cry, and he cried: All flesh is grass, yea all the glory thereof like the flower of the ¹field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth when the ⟨image 55⟩spirit of Jehovah bloweth on it. Surely the people is grass. John was commanded in the spirit of Elijah to cry, and he cried, Prepare the way of Jehovah, make even in the desert a path for our God. And Jonah was ²commanded to cry, and he cried: Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. And all the Preachers of the gospel are commanded to cry, and that aloud, not to spare, to lift up their voices like a trumpet, to show Gods people their defections, and the house of Jacob their sins. And then also, if they thereby be truly humbled, to proclaim unto them, their iniquity is pardoned, they have received at the hand of Jehovah double for all their sins. It is required of the disposers of Gods ³secrets, that they be found faithful. And woe to them that love the pleasures of sin, more then the glory of God.

Isaiah was commanded to cry, and he cried: All slesh is grasse, yea all the glorie thereof like the flower of the ¹field. The grasse withereth, the flower fadeth when the ⟨image 55⟩spirit of Iehouah bloweth on it. Surelie the people is grasse. Iohn was commanded in the spirit of Eliah to cry, and he cried, Prepare the way of Iehouah, make euen in the desert a path for our God. And Ionah was ²commanded to cry, and he cried: Yet fortie daies, and Niniuie shall be ouerthrowne. And all the Preachers of the gospell are commaunded to cry, and that aloude, not to spare, to lift vp their voyces like a trumpet, to shew Gods people their defections, and the house of Iacob their sinnes. And then also, if they thereby be truely humbled, to proclaime vnto them, their iniquitie is pardoned, they haue receiued at the hand of Iehouah double for all their sinnes. It is required of the disposers of Gods