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Seasonable truths in evil-times in several sermons / lately preached in and about London
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.
London: printed for Nath. Crouch, 1668
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Sermon 4: The two Witnesses, their Testimony.Sermon 4: The two VVitnesses, their Testimony.
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.
I answer, Because it is their work and business to bear Witness to the truths and ways of Christ, in opposition to the ways of Anti-Christ. If you look into this Book of the Revelations, you will find they are so described, by bearing witness unto the ways and the truths of Christ, in opposition to the ways of Anti-Christ. For look but a little into this Book, and you shall find that there are two sorts of people that are marked: The followers of the Beast are marked, and the followers of the Lamb are marked in their Foreheads.
I answer, Because it is their work and business to bear Witness to the truths and wayes of Christ, in opposition to the wayes of Anti-Christ. If you look into this Book of the Revelations, you will find they are so described, by bearing witness unto the waies and the truths of Christ, in opposition to the waies of Anti-Christ. For look but a little into this Book, and you shall find that there are two sorts of people that are marked: The followers of the Beast are marked, and the followers of the Lamb are marked in their Foreheads.
The followers of the Beast are marked, in Rev. 13. 16. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a Mark in their right hand, or in their Foreheads.
The Followers of the Lamb are marked in their ⟨p. 100⟩Foreheads too, chap. 14. ver. 1. And I looked, and lo a Lamb stood on the Mount Zion, and with him 144000 having his Fathers Name written in their Foreheads. But now though the followers of the Lamb are thus marked with their Fathers Name written in their Foreheads, yet their mark doth not only consist in some thing that is positive, but in Refusing the mark of the Beast,