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The true soldiers convoy A sermon preached upon the xvjth. day of May 1640,…The true souldiers convoy A sermon preached upon the xvjth. day of May 1640,…
The true soldiers convoy A sermon preached upon the xvjth. day of May 1640, upon a prayer day, for the Princes good success in going forth to war. By William Bridge.The true souldiers convoy A sermon preached upon the xvjth. day of May 1640, vpon a prayer day, for the Princes good successe in going forth to warre. By William Bridge.
In Rotterdam: printed for Thomas Lappagde, 1640
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Reas. 4, Fourthly, sometimes it is for this end, because the pit of his enemies is not yet digged: consider that 94. Psal. 12. 13. Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law that thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked, ⟨p. 19⟩there is a time when the pit of the wicked is digging, and all that time Gods people may be in suffering, God suffereth the wicked to run away with the bait, and doth not yet draw them, because they are not full on the hook, but when they have swallowed the hook, then he will draw them.
Reas. 4, Fourthly, somtimes it is for this end, because the pit of his enemies is not yet digged: consider that 94. Psal. 12. 13. Blessed is the man whome thou chastenest O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law that thou mayest giue him rest from the dayes of adversity, untill the pitt be digged for the wicked, ⟨p. 19⟩there is a time when the pitt of the wicked is digging, and all that time Gods people may be in suffering, God suffereth the wicked to run away with the baite, and doth not yet draw them, because they are not full on the hooke, but when they haue swallowed the hooke, then he will draw them.
Use. Hence we may see what the reason is many times why there is so much evil in the Churches, and why the enemies prevail so much, so long God is the strength of the Churches, and our strength sleepeth sometimes upon all the afflictions of the Churches, we are apt to be much discouraged like the disciples who whilst our Saviour was in the storm • sleep: they came running in all hast to him, saying, carest ⟨p. 20⟩thou not that we perish? so it is many times when a storm ariseth upon the Church, God seemeth to sleep, and we run in hast to God, and are apt to charge God: Lord carest thou not that we perish, but peace peace, he sleepeth only, he will awake shortly, you shall see it, and they shall feel it, for the third point tells us that.