Friday 28 February 2020

Quotations from the Puritan Golden Treasury

Mercy hath a heaven, and justice a hell, to display itself to eternity, but long-suffering hath only a short-lived earth.
A sin is two sins when it is defended.
[Regarding marriage:] First, he must choose his love, and then he must love his choice.
God examineth with trials, the devil examineth with temptations, the world examineth with persecutions.
When Adam was away, Eve was made a prey.
All are not saved by Christ’s death, but all which are saved, are saved by Christ’s death; His death is sufficient to save all, as the sun is sufficient to lighten all; but if any man wink, the sun will not give him light.
He hideth our unrighteousness with His righteousness, He covereth our disobedience with His obedience, He shadoweth our death with His death, that the wrath of God cannot find us.
Holy men have kept the sessions at home, and made their hearts the foremen of the jury, and examined themselves as we examine others. The fear of the Lord stood at the door of their souls, to examine every thought before it went in, and at the door of their lips, to examine every word before it went out, whereby they escaped a thousand sins which we commit, as though we had no other work.
He doth not bid us take a taste of all sins and vanities, as Solomon did, to try them: for they are tried already; but that we should set the Word of God always before us like a rule, and believe nothing but that which it teacheth, love nothing but that which it prescribeth, hate nothing but that which it forbideth, do nothing but that which is commandeth, and then we try all things by the Word.

Tuesday 25 February 2020

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Smith's works as listed on A Puritans mind,

His Works:

A Treatise on the Lord’s Supper by Henry Smith – eBook
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God’s Arrow Against Atheists by Henry Smith – eBook
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Old English Works (as found on EEBO)
  1. The sinners confession by Henrie Smith. (1593)
  2. The affinitie of the faithfull being a verie godlie and fruitfull sermon, made vpon part of the eight chapter of the Gospel of Saint Luke. By Henrie Smith. (1591)
  3. The Christians sacrifice Seene, and allowed. (1589)
  4. The examination of vsury in two sermons. (1591)
  5. The first sermon of Noahs drunkennes A glasse wherein all drunkards may behold their beastliness. Noah also began to be an husbandman and planted a vineyard, and he dranke of the wine and was drunken, and was vncouered in the middest of his tent. Gen. 9.20. Henry Smith. (1591)
  6. Foure sermons preached by Master Henry Smith. And published by a more perfect copie then heretofore (1599)
  7. A fruitfull sermon vpon part of the 5. chapter of the first epistle of Saint Paule to the Thessalonians. By Henry Smith, which sermon being taken by characterie, is now published for the benefite of the faithfull (1591)
  8. Iacobs ladder, or The high way to heauen Being the last sermon that Master Henry Smith made. And now published, not (as many forged things haue beene in his name) to deceiue the Christian reader, but to instruct and prepare him with oyle in his lampe, ioyfully to meete the Lord Iesus in his second comming. (1591)
  9. The lavviers question The answere to the lawiers question. The censure of Christ vpon the answere. By Henry Smith. (1595)
  10. The magistrates scripture. (1591)
  11. The poore mans teares opened in a sermon / preached by Henrie Smith. ; Treating of almes deeds, and releeuing the poore. (1592)
  12. Satans compassing the earth. By Henrie Smith (1592)
  13. The sermons of Maister Henrie Smith gathered into one volume. Printed according to his corrected copies in his life time. (1593)
  14. Three prayers one for the morning, another for the euening: the third for a sick-man. Whereunto is annexed, a godly letter to a sicke freend: and a comfortable speech of a preacher vpon his death bedde. Anno. Dom. 1591. (1591)
  15. The wedding garment (1590)
  16. The trumpet of the soule, sounding to iudgement by Henry Smith. (1591)
  17. The benefit of contentation Taken by characterie and examined after. (1591)