Seasonable truths in evil-times in several sermons / lately preached in and about London

Name: Seasonable truths in evil-times in several sermons / lately preached in and about London
Author: William Bridge

Seasonable truths in evil-times in several sermons / lately preached in and about London by William Bridge, late preacher of the word of God at Yarmouth.Seasonable truths in evil-times in several sermons / lately preached in and about London by Willam Bridge, late preacher of the word of God at Yarmouth.

William Bridge 1600?–1670London: printed for Nath. Crouch, 1668

254 p. · 76k words · Wing B4463 · ESTC R28532

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Sermon 2: The first and last in Suffering-work. SERM. II.

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.

[ Earlier:133–148 of 908

:133p. 42–43

And what Nation did God take out of the Gentiles? did he take any great continent in ⟨p. 43⟩America, where the Gold and the Silver is? No, but the Isles shall wait for thy law: and, the inhabitants of Kedar shall rejoice, and the inhabitants of the rocks shall sing.

:134p. 43

And when God would convert these, whom did he make use of to do it? He makes use of Paul, Paul the last of all the Apostles: the twelve Apostles they stood first: but he that stood behind, that was brought in last, that was born out of time, he is taken to do the work.

:135p. 43

And who are they that are converted to him? They are babes and sucklings: not many wise, not many noble, but habes and sucklings. Even so, Father, because thou art so pleased. This is the ordinary way of God: he takes those things that stand behind, and brings them before; and takes those things that stand before, and sets them behind. And why doth he do so? Why

:136p. 43–44

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