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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.
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. 'tis said of him, He confessed and denied not, but confessed, I am not the Christ. He confessed, and did not revoke his testimony. He confessed, & denied not, but confessed. I know there's an Hebraism in it, but there's more than so.—And he confessed and denied not: He bare his testimony, and did nothing that might revoke that testimony, either directly or by consequence. And therefore if you would bear your testimony for the truth of Christ, take heed that when you have given in your testimony, you do nothing that may revoke it, either directly or by consequence. Thus by way of Rule.
4. If you would witness a good Confession, then ⟨p. 104⟩take heed that when you hav 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 somthing that they do afterwards, either directly or by consequence. Mark what is said of John in Joh. 1. 20. 'tis said of him, He confessed and denyed not, but confessed, I am not the Christ. He confessed, and did not revoke his testimony. He confessed, & denyed not, but confessed. I know there's an Hebraism in it, but theres more than so.—And he confessed and denyed not: He bare his testimony, and did nothing that might revoke that testimony, either directly or by consequence. And therefore if you would bear your testimony for the truth of Christ, take heed that when you have given in your testimony, you do nothing that may revoke it, either directly or by consequence. Thus by way of Rule.