Six Sermons, Title page – Dedication
SIXE SERMONS PREACHED BY MAISTER HENRY SMITH AT CLEMENT DANES CHVRCH without Temple barre.
VVith tvvo Prayers of the ſame Author hereunto annexed.
Imprinted at London by R. F. for Robert Dexter, dwelling at the Braſen ſerpent in Paules church-yard. 1592.
The contents.
Tvvo Sermons of the ſong of Simeon.
The third, of the calling of Ionah.
The fourth and fift, of the rebellion of Ionah.
The ſixt, of the punishment of Ionah.
Tvvo Prayers.
TO THE RIGHT NOBLE LORD, THE LORD EDWARD EARLE of Bedford, grace and peace from the Lord.
AS the litle bee gathereth not honie for her ſelfe alone, but for others: ſo right Honorable, I am bold to preſent your good Lordſhip with my Choice, my Care, and the Iſſue. The firſt your honorable ſelf, & in The Ch…i…e.this, as you are the hope of the reuiuing of your vndoubted noble grand-father and father: ſo my heartie wel-wiſhings (together with the prayers of all the godly) is, that what the Almightie here graced them with, in you may be redoubled. The ſecond is, the fountaine The Care.whence the firſt had his ſtreame, and being in me (as a mēber of the Church) what I wiſh to the ſame aſſured aſſemblie of Gods people, I leaue to the alone determiner of all controuerſies whatſoeuer. The laſt I commend to the onelyonly The Iſſue.direction of the Lord. Now as the faithfull diſpoſer of Gods truth, was a man linked vntounto me in aſſured friendſhip whileſt he liued: ſo I hauing with care long ſithens collected theſe his ſermons together, do now with ſingleneſſe of heart preſent the ſame vntounto your Lordſhip, and therwith am preſt to performe all ſuch duties to your Honor, as God ſhall enable me vntounto, both in prayer for your health▪ and increaſe of zeale to the maintenance of his poore flocke, which I hope is the onelyonly aime and ende of all your Honorable purpoſes. Thus with all other graces, I moſt heartily deſire that father of light to enrich you in this life, and after this, to bleſſe you with immortalitie in that place of reſt for euer.
Your Lordships to command W. S.