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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.
3. If you would witness a good confession in these days of ours, then you must be willing also for to suffer for the truth of Christ. Those that cannot suffer for the truth of Christ, and run the hazard of a suffering, they cannot bear their witness fully. See how they go together, in Rev. 13. 10. Here is the patience and Faith of the Saints. The Faith of the Saints, and their Patience, do go together. So in chap. 14. ver. 12. Here is the Patience of the Saints, here are they that keep the Commandments of God, and the Faith of Jesus. Patience, and keeping the Commandments of God, and the Faith of Jesus, they go together: And therefore that's a third thing.
3. If you would witness a good confession in these dayes of ours, then you must be willing also for to suffer for the truth of Christ. Those that cannot suffer for the truth of Christ, and run the hazard of a suffering, they cannot bear their witness fully. See how they go together, in Rev. 13. 10. Here is the patience and Faith of the Saints. The Faith of the Saints, and their Patience, do go together. So in chap. 14. ver. 12. Here is the Patience of the Saints, here are they that keep the Commandments of God, and the Faith of Jesus. Patience, and keeping the Commandments of God, and the Faith of Jesus, they go together: And therefore thats a third thing.
4. If you would witness a good Confession, then ⟨p. 104⟩take heed that when you have born your testimony, you do nothing that may revoke the same, either directly or by consequence. Some bear a good testimony to the truths of Christ, but then they revoke their testimony by something that they do afterwards, either directly or by consequence. Mark what is said of John in Joh. 1. 20