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Smith was born at Whitwick, in Leicestershire, in 1560, educated at Oxford, and became preacher at St. Clement Danes, but removed from London to Mansfield, in Nottinghamshire, where he died in 1593. Two out of the fifty-five sermons in this collection deal with intemperance, 'Noah's Drunkennesse' and 'A Glasse for Drunkards,' and both contain some curious passages. But my present wish is to call attention to the discourse entitled 'The Lost Sheepe is Found.' In this we have set forth the dealings of the silvertongued divine with a religious enthusiast or impostor. This man, Robert Dickons, claimed to have had visions, and that an angel had called him Elias, and that the prophecy of Malachi was to be fulfilled in him. He was arrested, and the High Sheriff, Mr. Brian Cave, desired Smith to examine him. According to the list in Fuller's "Worthies,' Mr. Cave, who was Mr. Smith's uncle, was sheriff in the twenty-fourth year of Elizabeth's reign, and we are thus enabled to date the incident. We have, accordingly, Mr. Smith's sermon and notes of his interviews with the "false prophet." Dickons was a man of good life; "indeed," says the preacher, "I heare well of your conversation towards all mer, and am heartily sorry that such a good life should impart credit unto a false doctrine." After many theological arguments, the enthusiast is warned also of temporal dangers. "God is my witness," says Henry Smith, "I have suffered the Spirit to speak unto thee, because I seeke thy conversion, but if thou wilt not return, while mercy is ready, I bring thee sorrowful tidings, when Satan shall not help thee the rack must prove this doctrine." There is here a grim suggestion which may have had as much effect as all the other arguments put together. Smith had the manuscript books in which Dickons had written down the dreams, fancies, or fabrications to which he gave the name of visions Upon these there is the following characteristic memorandum : Questions gathered out of his owne Confession, by Henry Smith: which are yet unanswered. Whether you are sure you shall liue these three yeares; because you say, after three yeares you must preach? Whether may a man expect visions from God, because you say for these three yeares you are to look for visions. Whether shall you be able at any time to interprete the truths of the Scripture in all places without errour, better than all the Doctors? One of your sentences saith, you shall liue chast in wedlocke: when must you take a wife? and why should you not rather continue single? Whether there has beene neither pestilence, nor dearth, nor warre, nor earthquake in your country these five yeares, nor shall be any time of your continuance there, because the Angell so promised? is this more than euer was granted to Christ? What Bible or translations meane you when you say, this Bible is truly translated? Whether it be necessary to saluation, to believe all the articles of the Creede? Whether any man since the Apostles, did stand so right in the whole doctrine of the Scriptures, that hee did hold and beleeue the true interpretation of all the words and sayings through all Prophets and Apostles in all the Bible? Whether predestination, election, &c., are to be preached unto laymen? What free will had Adam, and what free-will remaineth unto us? What Scriptures are canonicall & which are not canonicall? Whether a man may marry his child with a Papist or other heretike, hoping to conuert him? Whether Ministers should have liuings or stipends? Whether in some cases a Minister may not be nonresident? Whether heretikes, liuing to themselves, without corrupting other, are to be punished with death? Whether Satan knoweth the inward thoughts, further than by the outward habit of the body, and whether he can reade and say, Verbum caro factum est? Whether Christ was, or is, or shall be knowne and preached unto all nations of the world? |