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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.
Doct. 2 IT is possible that the Saints, and People of God, may be much discouraged, and cast down: Though there be an inward Peace and quietness of Soul, which they are ordinarily endued with, yet possibly this Peace may be interrupted, and themselves much discouraged, and cast down.
Doct. 2 IT is possible that the Saints, and People of God, may be much discouraged, and cast down: Though there be an inward Peace and quietness of Soul, which they are ordinarily indued with, yet possibly this Peace may be interrupted, and themselves much discouraged, and cast down.
Here are two words in the Text speak as much; Cast-down, Disquieted. And three times in this Psalm, the Psalmist saith, His Soul was cast down within him; yet this David was a man of great Peace and Comfort ordinarily.
And as with David; so it was, is, and will be with other Saints. This is so ordinary a case, that •he Holy Ghost hath provided a standing Psalm, or Prayer, on purpose for such as are in this condition: Psalm, 102. the Title, A Prayer; or Psalm, of the afflicted, when he is over-whelmed, and poureth out his ⟨p. 22⟩complaint before the Lord. In Psal. 119.25. he saith, My belly cleaves to the dust; and that is low indeed. And vers. 28. My soul melteth for heaviness: I am not only sad, and heavy, but my soul melteth for heaviness. Canticles 5. The Spouse saith, Her heart was gone; or, my soul failed within me. And if we look into