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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 Some things by way of Question, some things by way of direction.
First, Hast thou quite forgot the years of the right hand of the most high? hast thou lost all thy former experiences too? I know that usually when our comforts fail, our former experiences fail, yet not always; for the Psalmist saith here, my soul is cast down, yet at the same time vers. 6. he saith, Therefore I will remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. So Psal. 77 The Psalmist having said at the 7. vers. Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? is his mercy clean gone for ever? and doth his promise fail for evermore? hath God forgotten to be Gracious &c? he addeth in the same breath, but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most high. Ye know what the disciples said. Did not our hearts glow within us while he opened the scriptures to us? 1Beloved! you have no comfort now, well, but you remember at such a time, when you were all alone in your chamber, and no soul was near you, how the Lord came and opened the scriptures, the promise to your soul, wherewith your heart did glow within you. Have you quite forgotten the openings of those scriptures to you? (I speak not of the Glowings, for I suppose they are now gone) but are the scriptures gone that were then opened to you? did not you say in your last trouble and down-cast condition, if ever the Lord appear to me again, I will never doubt of his mercy more? And did he not appear unto you and open the promise unto your heart? and have you now forgotten these things? this is your infirmity, why should you not remember the days, and times, and works, and experiences of the right hand of the most high?
First, Hast thou quite forgot the yeares of the right hand of the most high? hast thou lost al thy former experiences too? I know that usually when our comforts fail, our former experiences fail, yet not alwaies; for the Psalmist saith here, my soul is cast down, yet at the same time vers. 6. he saith, Therefore I wil remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hil Missar. So