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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.
A most heavy and grievous thing it is, if you knew what you are doing here, and what your sins are doing at the bar of Gods just judgement. For even now before you came hither, you were serving the devil in sin, but now it is too late to speak of it, and where are they now? flesh and blood could not stay them, nature could not stay them, pleasures could not stay them, riches could not stay them, nor they could not stay themselves, but they are ascended up before the face of the eternal God, to stand at his bar and cry for vengeance ⟨image 56⟩to fall upon us, for committing such heinous sins against the majesty of God.
A most heauy and greeuous thing it is, if you knew what you are doing here, and what your sinnes are doing at the barre of Gods iust iudgement. For euen now before you came hither, you were seruing the diuell in sinne, but now it is too late to speake of it, and where are they now? flesh and blood could not stay them, nature could not stay them, pleasures could not stay them, riches could not stay them, nor they could not stay themselues, but they are ascended vp before the face of the eternall God, to stand at his barre and cry for vengeance ⟨image 56⟩to fall vpon vs, for committing such hainous sinnes against the maiesty of God.
An arrow is swift, the Sun is swifter, but sin is swiftest of all: for in a moment it is committed on earth, it comes before God in heaven, & is condemned to hell, for though Nimrod could not climb up to heaven, his sins flew up to heaven: and though we stay below, our sins ascend high, like the tower of Nimrod, but they fling us down to confusion, & we become Babel. For when we sin we are as the shell-fish which the Eagle taketh, and flieth into the air with, and then letteth it fall upon the rocks, and so dasheth it in pieces, and then devours it. For the wrath of God taketh us up on hie, and throweth us down low upon the rocks of shame and contempt, and terror of conscience: and so having crushed us, & bruised our very bones, consumes us with double death, the grave devouring us, hell swallowing us.