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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. Not so, for i• a threatening make way to the promise, and doth therefore come forth to meet you, that it may lead you to the promise, have you any hurt thereby? now as the law was a Schoolmaster to bring to Christ, so sometimes the threatening is a Schoolmaster to bring you to the Promise.
Answ. Not so, for i• a threatening make way to the promise, and doth therefore come forth to meet you, that it may lead you to the promise, have you any hurt thereby? now as the law was a Schoolmaster to bring to Christ, so somtimes the threatening is a Schoolmaster to bring you to the Promise.
Yea, and God doth therefore sometimes send the threatening, that it may lead you to the promise. You know how God appeared to Elijah, first in a wind that did shake the Mountains and Rocks, but God was not there, then in an Earthquake, but God was not there, then in a fire, but God was not there, then in a still voice, and there was God. So when God appears to a soul, sometimes he doth first send a threatening, and shakes the Rocks, and Mountains, and hard hearts, and his converting Grace may not be there, but there is a still voice behind, the voice of the promise, God is there, and all this shaking of the threatening, is but to make way unto the still voice of the promise that is behind.
Yea, and God doth therefore somtimes send the threatening, that it may lead you to the promise. You know how God appeared to Elijah, first in a wind that did shake the Mountains and Rocks, but God was not there, then in an Earthquake, but God was not there, then in a fire, but God was not there, then in a stil voice, and there was God. So when God appears to a soul, somtimes he doth first send a threatning, and shakes the Rocks, and Mountains, and hard hearts, and his converting Grace may not be there, but there is a stil voice behind, the voice of the promise, God is there, and al this shaking of the threatning, is but to make way unto the stil voice of the promise that is behind.