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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.
Fifthly, Sometimes again, God sees his Children do grow vain, and light, and frothy, and wanton, and secure under their Peace and Comfort, and then he withdraws himself, hides his face, and so they do lose their Comfort. This was the case in Canticles, 5. where the Spouse saith, My soul failed within me, at verse 6. But why? I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had withdrawn himself: And why had he withdrawn himself? He comes and makes a tender of Love and Mercy, verse 2. and she would none, ⟨p. 26⟩verse 3. I have put off my Coat, how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them? that is, I am now laid to sleep; they are words that import security, and upon her security he withdraws himself, and being withdrawn, her soul fails within her. And thus it is many times with the Children of God in their particulars; the Lord sees that they grow secure, vain, frothy, and wanton under their peace and comfort, then he withdraws himself, and their peace faileth.
Fifthly, Somtimes again, God sees his Children do grow vain, and light, and froathy, and wanton, and secure under their Peace and Comfort, and then he withdraws himself, hides his face, and so they do lose their Comfort. This was the case in Canticles, 5. where the Spouse saith, My soul failed within me, at verse 6. But why? I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had withdrawn himself: And why had he withdrawn himself? He comes and makes a tender of Love and Mercy, verse 2. and she would none, ⟨p. 26⟩verse 3. I have put off my Coat, how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them? that is, I am now laid to sleep; they are words that import security, and upon her security he withdraws himself, and being withdrawn, her soul fails within her. And thus it is many times with the Children of God in their particulars; the Lord sees that they grow secure, vain, froathy, and wanton under their peace and comfort, then he withdraws himself, and their peace faileth.