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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. Yea, Still you have need to do it: for did not the day dawn, and the day-star arise on the hearts of the Apostles, and Christians in their days, according to your sense and meaning? yet they still attended on the written Word of God. Surely therefore, the meaning of the Text is not according to that Conjecture. Some ⟨p. 43⟩therefore would have the words to be read thus: Till the day-star arise on your hearts; and so think they are spoken of the Day of Judgment, concerning which time, Paul says, 1 Cor. 4, 5. That Christ will bring to light, the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the Counsels of the heart. 1But as ye have heard in the Explication of the Text, the word Until, in Scripture Phrase, is not always taken exclusively: for Example; David saith, Ps. 57.1. My soul trusteth in thee, O God, and in the shadow of thy wings will I trust, till this Calamity be over-past. What would David trust in God no longer? Yes: but he would do it especially whilst that Calamity continued. So Psal. 123. he saith, Our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, till he have mercy upon us: What would they wait on God no longer? Yes: but in their distress especially. So Cant. 2.16, 17. I am my beloveds, and my beloved is mine, he feedeth among the Lilies, until the day break: What doth Christ feed among the Lilies no longer? will he not feed among the Lilies after the day break? Yes: But the word Till, or Until, is not always to be taken exclusively. And I'll give you but one Scripture for it, amongst many in the New Testament, Matth. 12.20. A bruised Reed will he not break, and the smoking Flax shall he not quench, until he bring forth Judgment unto Victory: What will Christ break the bruised Reed then? and quench the smoking Flax after he hath brought Judgment to Victory? No: but the word Until, in Scripture Phrase, is not always to be taken exclusively. And so here in this Text, Ye do well, that ye take heed to the word of Prophecy, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts: