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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
SAINTS Should not be DISCOURAGED, Whatever their Condition be.
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. 3 Thirdly: If the darkness which a man is under, be such, as there are some openings of Light withal, then it is the darkness of a cloud, and not of the night; though the cloud may cause much darkness, yet ever and anon it opens, and there are some interims of light withal; but the night opens not, there are no interims of light then, Now interims and intermissions of Light, are sure and certain pledges of a greater light which is yet to come. You know that when David fled from Absalom, he was in a dark condition, for the Text saith, He went, and he wept, and he went bare-foot; his own son persecutes him, drives him from his Throne, a great confederacy was raised against him by wicked men, with the child of his own bowels; here was darkness upon darkness, matter of great discouragement, but it was a cloud, and no more.
Answ. 3 Thirdly: If the darkness which a man is under, be such, as there are some openings of Light withal, then it is the darkness of a cloud, and not of the night; though the cloud may cause much darkness, yet ever and anon it opens, and there are some interims of light withal; but the night opens not, there are no interims of light then, Now interims and intermissions of Light, are sure and certain pledges of a greater light which is yet to come. You know that when David fled from Absolon, he was in a dark condition, for the Text saith, He went, and he wept, and he went bare-foot; his own son persecutes him, drives him from his Throne, a great consederacy was raised against him by wicked men, with the child of his own bowels; here was darkness upon darkness, matter of great discouragement, but it was a cloud, and no more.
You will say, How should David have known that it was but the darkness of a cloud?
You wil say, How should David have known that it was but the darkness of a cloud?