“[Henry Smith] preached a sermon on Sarah’s nursing of Isaac, and thereupon ground that general doctrine, that it was the duty of mothers to nurse their own children, allowing dispensation to such who were unsufficienced by weakness, want of milk, or any avouchable impediment. He pressed the application without respect of persons, high or low, rich or poor, one or other; taxing them with pride, or laziness, or both, who would not do the office to the fruit of their own womb.”
The Works of Henry Smith: including Sermons, Treatises, Prayers, and Poems. With life of the author, Vol. I, Thomas Fuller, editor. Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1866, p. ix.
Henry Smith, an English Puritan minister, lived circa 1560 to circa 1600, preached in London, and was considered one of the best orators of his day.
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