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A12406	The sermons of Maister Henrie Smith gathered into one volume. Printed according to his corrected copies in his life time.; Sermons	Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.	1593 (1593)	STC 22719; ESTC S117445	481,730	1,028

reasons do cry with Salomon Remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth This is the Kings commendation or greeting to the Colledge of youth But how should young men remember God when olde men forget him If Noah be drunke who shall rebuke Cham It is time to remember GOD in age or to forget him for euer Therefore as the Isralites gathered twice so much Manna the day before the Sabboath as they gathered any day before that because they might not gather vpō the Sabbaoth so the gray head which looketh euerie day for the last Sabbaoth when he shall rest in the graue should pray twice as much heare twice as much doo twice as much to prepare the sacrifice of his bodie soule readie and acceptable vnto GOD because the night is at hand when he cannot heare nor pray nor repent any more It is said the Diuel is very busie because his time is short but an old mans is shorter What haste should he make that must goe farther than the Mores than the Sunne in a yeare or a mouth or a weeke which the Saintes were going all their life Therefore if youth had neede of legges age had neede of wings to flie vnto God But as Christ saide The poore receiue the Gospell though the rich be more bound so we may say the yong men receiue the Gospel though the olde men haue more cause The yong men follow Christ the yong men heare the word the yong men sanctifie themselues the young men stande for the church the yong men beare the heate of this day olde Noah is drunke old Lot is sleepie olde Sampson hath lost his strength Once the yonger brother did steale the blessing from the elder now he hath got it againe as the malice of Esau shewes which persecutes him for it I speake it to their shame they that weare the furres and scarlets as though they were all wisedome and grauitie and holines euen to the skirtes may say as Zedechias said to Micaiah When did the spirit depart from me and goe to thee When did zeale depart from vs and goe to you They are so nouseled to the world and acquainted with sinne that it is too late now for the world to speake vnto them they may looke vpon the signes of wisdome and grauitie and holines when they see their long beards and gray heads side gownes and aske why is this bush hanged out and no wine within What meruaile then if they be not reuerenced but mockt and pointed at when Sem and Iaphet had need to come againe and couer their nakednesse What a shame was it to the Israelites when Christ saide by a Canaanite I haue not found so great faith in Israel So what a shame is it to the elders that Christ may saye againe I haue not found so great faith nor knowledge nor zeale in Masters and Fathers and Rulers as in seruants and children and prentises Which made an olde Father of this Citie say which now is with God that if there were any good to bee done in these dayes it is the yong men that must doe it for the olde men are out of date their courage stoopes like their shoulders their zeale is withered like their browes their faith staggereth like their feete and their religion is dead before them Bee assured of this that yee are come to that time which your selues set to repent and yet as though there were another age to repent after olde age for you spende olde age like youth as if you were appointed to die in your sinnes God hath chosen the weake things saith Paul 1. Cor. 1. so I may say God hath chosen the young things to doe his woorke as if the Lord had spoken to you in his wrath Fathers I will prouoke you by your children Masters I will prouoke you by your seruants as once hee threatned to prouoake the Iewes by the Gentiles Therefore be of good cheere yong Daniel yong Samuel yong Timothie though our aduersaries be as the Aramites yet there be mo with vs than against vs. Flesh blood could not ouercome flesh and blood but if you be sanctified it is the spirite which hath sanctified you for the diuell would not goe out vnles a stronger than the diuell had entred the house when you come to be richer and elder like Demas then take heed that ye doo not embrace the world as Demas did turne to that which ye condemne The vine would not leaue her grapes nor the oliue her fatnes nor the fig-tree her sweetnes to bee a King but the bramble did hee is not a vine nor an oliue nor a fig-tree but a bramble made for the fire which leaueth his righteousnes to become worse He which is of the Church will say with the Church I haue washed my feete how should I defile them again Let the dogge turne to his vomite and the swine to their walloing but hold thou on thy sacrifice like Abraham to the euening of thy life and a full measure shalbe measured vnto thee as thou hast measured thy selfe Vnto the which measure without measure the Lord Iesus bring vs. FINIS THE TRIAL OF THE RIGHTEOVS PSALM 34. 19. Many are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord deliuereth him out of all THe summe of this verse is as if he should say Let the Righteous looke for mo troubles than other likewise let thē hope for greter comforts than other for when they are well they shall bee eclipsed againe to shewe that their light was but borrowed and when they are eclipsed their light shall returne to shew their difference from them whom God hateth which fall from plague to plague as they runne from sinne to sinne This verse hath three partes for heere the righteous are the agents their condition troubles and the Lord their deliuerer so manie things fall out contrarie vnto our mindes euery day that hee which wanteth patience in this worlde is like a man which standeth trembling in the field without his armor because euerie one can strike him and hee can strike none so the least push of pain or losse or disgrace dooth trouble that man more which hath not the skill to suffer than twentie tryals can moue him which is armed with patience like a golden shield in his hand to breake the stroke of euerie crosse and saue the heart though the bodie suffer for while the heart is whole all is well A sound spirit saith Salomon will beare his infirmitie but a wounded spirit what can sustaine Pro. 19. 14. Therefore as the lid is made to open and shut to saue the eie so patience is set to keepe the soule and saue the heart whole to cheare the bodie againe Therefore if you marke when you can goe by an offence and take a little wrong and suffer a trouble quietly you haue a kinde of peace and ioy in your heart as if you had gotten a victorie and the more your patience is still the

Antichristes religion yet we bee of Antichristes fashion so long as wee shew foorth the same badge and cognisance you know what I meane This is to iumpe with the world and leape to hell This is not to be in fashion but out of fashion therefore nowe yee shall heare the best fashion It followeth Be you changed by the renewing of your mindes This is the second part of your reasonable seruice The changing and renewing of the minde to the likenesse wherein it was created As before he required you to giue your bodies so here hee requireth you to giue your mindes Outwarde seruice is like a tinckling Cimball though it hath neuer so pleasant a sounde yet it doth not please God because it hath no minde to please him so is the seruice of the eie or the eare or the hand or the foote if the minde be away it may please other like the Cimball but it pleaseth not God The body is a seruant as well as the soule but there is no promise made to the bodilie seruice but to the Spirituall seruice For vnlesse the minde worke the bodie will serue but a while Therefore make cleane within saith Christ Sanctification begins within vntill the minde be renewed the body is neuer sacrificed Therefore now Paul shewes as it were the knife that must kill this sacrifice that is the minde the minde must sacrifice the bodie Be ye chaunged as if he should say Suffer your selues to be chaunged as Noah suffered himselfe to bee couered that is Grien● not the spirit doe not resist God bee not against your conuersion and GOD wil conuert you God will comfort you God will renew you By this renewing of our minds Paule calleth to our remembrance that once we had a pure minde and that we come the neerer vnto God the neerer we draw to that similitude againe And therefore the Scripture calleth so often for a newe man a newe creature a new heart As ye may reade Psal 51. 10. Dauid praieth the Lorde to create him a new heart not to correct his olde heart but to create him a new heart Shewing that his heart was like an old garment so rotten and tattered that he coulde make no good of it by patching and peecing but must euen cast it off and take a newe Therefore Paul saith Cast off the olde man Not pick him and wash him till hee bee cleane but cast him off and begin a new as Dauid did Wil yee knowe what this renewing is It is the repairing of the Image of God vntill we bee like Adam when hee dwelt in Paradise As there is a whole olde man so there must bee a whole new man the olde man must chaunge with the new man wisedome for wisedome loue for loue feare for feare his worldy wisedome for heauenly wisedome his carnall loue for spirituall loue his seruile feare for Christian feare his idle thoughts for holie thoughts his vaine wordes for holesome wordes his fleshly works for sanctified works If the minde must be so renewed I would know of the Papists where are their pure naturals if our naturals were pure our mindes neede not to bee renewed for it is good to bee pure and euill to change it but because there is no purenes in vs therefore the Apostle would haue vs changed Againe let them tell me why our mindes should bee renewed if we haue free will to doe good if wee list But because our mindes are so corrupted that wee haue no free will to good nor will to doe good neither therefore the Apostle would haue our mindes renewed Thus one word of God hath battered two Castles of Antichrist FINIS A looking Glasse for Christians Rom. 12. 3. I say through the grace that is giuen vnto me to euerie one that is among you that no man presume to vnderstand aboue that which is meete to vnderstand but that he vnderstande according to Sobrietie as God hath dealth to euerie man the measure of faith FIrst of the Preface and then of the counsell In the first verse of this Chapter Paule perswaded the Romanes by the mercie of GOD towardes them heere hee perswadeth them By the grace of GOD towardes him Paul speakes like a man in his deathbed which is set to giue good counsel and goeth from one lesson to another as though hee would speake al with a breath First he counselled them to make their bodies serue God because the bodie is a seruant as well as the soule then he forbad them to fashion themselues to the worlde because no man can serue two contrarie maisters Then he aduised thē to renew their mindes because except the minde be reformed the body will serue but a while And he setteth them to seeke Gods will because the will of man doth seduce him And now to make vp this Testament as it were hee admonisheth them to rest in the knowledge of Gods will and not to search further nor to be proud of their knowledge but to vse their knowledge to humble their pride This lesson may seeme vaine to the Romanes for they were not yet come to be wise and he councelleth thē not to be too wise Paule saith That the Gentiles sought after wisedome but he saith there That the preaching of the Gospell seemed foolishnes vnto them which was wisdom therefore God calleth them a foolish nation because they counted the true wisedome foolishnes and their owne follie wisedome For this cause there was such emulation between the Iew and the Gentile one despised another because they did not accorde what wisedome was although both sought for it Therefore that ye may not only seeke wisdome as the Gentiles did but finde wisedome as Salomon did Paul laieth a foundation for wisedome to stay vpon which he cals Sobrietie Be wise according to Sobrietie which is this By the grace of GOD which is giuen to me Because he speakes to all and his charge is of great moment and they which thinke themselues wise will hardly bee perswaded but that they are wise therefore he comes with authoritie like an ambassadour from GOD and saith By the grace of GOD which is giuen to mee that is by the vertue of mine Apostleship which I haue not receiued from men but from GOD nor from earth but from heauen I charge you that no man among you whether he be learned or vnlearned whether he bee an hearer or a teacher presume to knowe aboue that which is meete to knowe that is make himselfe wiser than he is or boast of the graces which GOD hath giuen him or despise the giftes of God in other or rome beyond his calling or trouble his head with curiosities but that hee bee wise according to sobrietie that is walke within his vocation be humble in his knowledge and vse his gifts to the profite of other as GOD hath giuen to euery man the measure of faith that is remembring that it is a gift of God which hath dealt gifts