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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. 2 Secondly: And if this which you complain of, may be the condition of the Saints, then you have no reason to be discouraged. Now, for the loss of the Promise, you know how it was with Joshua: The Lord gave Joshua a gracious Promise; I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee: Be strong, be not dismayed, be not afraid, be of good courage, for, I will not leave thee, nor forsake thee. Josh. 1. But the Children of Israel were a little discomfited by the men of Ai, and see how Joshua lost the sight of the Promise; in Josh. chap. 7. vers. 6, 7. Joshua rent his Clothes, and fell to the Earth upon his face, before the Ark of the Lord, he and the Elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads, and said, Alas, O Lord God, wherefore hast thou at all brought this People over Jordan, to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would to God we had been content to dwell on the other side Jordan. O! what Unbelief is here! what discouragement is here! how had he lost the Promise! O! Lord, saith he, what shall I say, when Israel turns their backs before their Enemies! and O! what shall we say, when Joshua turned his back upon the Promise! But so it was with Joshua here, he had lost the sight of the Promise which once he had. And as for the Threatening; you know how it was with David: having sinned greatly in the matter of Uriah, the Lord threatens him, That the Sword should never depart from his House: And the Threatening did take hold upon him, and David was under the stroke of the Threatening: But was not Joshua Godly? and was not David Godly? So then, a Godly man may possibly lose the sight of the Promise, and have a Threatening set on his soul too.
Answ. 2 Secondly: And if this which you complain of, may be the condition of the Saints, then you have no reason to be discouraged. Now, for the loss of the Promise, you know how it was with Joshua: The Lord gave Joshua a gracious Promise; I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee: Be strong, be not dismayed, be not afraid, be of good courage, for, I will not leave thee, nor forsake thee. Josh. 1. But the Children of Israel were a little discomfited by the men of Ai, and see how Joshua lost the sight of the Promise; in Josh. chap. 7. vers. 6, 7