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I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…
I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet. I. 19 : II. Christ in travel ... in three sermons on Isai. 53. 11 : III. A lifting up for the down-cast ... delivered in thirteen sermons on Psal. 42, 11 : four several sermons ... / preached by William Bridge ...
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1656
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.
Answ. 1 No: For Gods greatest Works, are not always done by the greatest Parts, and most choice Abilities. G•deon did a great Work for God in his Generation, yet saith he, Judg. 6.15. O my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold my Family is poor in Manasseh, and I am least in my Fathers House: As if he should say, if this great work be done, it must be done by some strong and potent Family, or P•rson; but as for me, I am the least in my Fathers House, and my Fathers House is the least in Manasseh; yet saith the Lord to him, I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite Midian as one man. I have read in Scripture, that the People have been too many, and the means too strong for God to work by; but I never read that it was too small, or weak for God to work by: God saith, Who hath despised the day of small things? And if he will not have us to despise the day of his small things, surely he will not despise the day of our small things. Did not the weakness of the Apostles, overcome the strength of all the world? Who doth not see what weighty Buildings God hath sometimes laid upon our Laths? He is able to make as great a hole with his Needle, as with our Bodkin.
Answ. 1 No: For Gods greatest Works, are not alwaies done by the greatest Parts, and most choyce Abilities. G•deon did a great Work for God in his Generation, yet saith he, Judg. 6.15. O my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold my Family is poor in Manasseth, and I am least in my Fathers House: As if he should say, if this great work be done, it must be done by some strong and potent Family, or P•rson; but as for me, I am the least in my Fathers House, and my Fathers House is the least in Manasseh; yet saith the Lord to him, I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite Midian as one man. I have read in Scripture, that the People have been too many, and the means too strong for God to work by; but I never read that it was too smal, or weak for God to work by: God saith, Who hath despised the day of smal things? And if he wil not have us to despise the day of his smal things, surely he wil not despise the day of our smal things. Did not the weakness of the Apostles, overcome the strength of al the world? Who doth not see what weighty Buildings God hath somtimes laid upon our Laths? He is able to make as great a hole with his Needle, as with our Bodkin.