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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.
Thirdly, In the next place, Take heed that you be not feared or scared too much with the scare-crows of the times, but go to God for boldness, that you may be emboldened with the boldness of the Holy Ghost. A timorous fearful Spirit will shrink in witness-bearing, if God come not in with boldness. You may see how they would have made Nehemiah to have ceased from the work of God, even by scaring and fearing of him, in Neh. 6. Tobiah and Sanball•t, they send unto him that they might make him cease from the work of God that was in his hand; and they say unto him, 'Tis reported that thou hast appointed to Preach at Jerusalem, saying, There is a King in Jerusalem, and now shall it be reported to the King according to these words, ver. 7. here they cry out, A Plot, a Plot: But while they cry out a Plot upon Nehemiah, the truth is, it was their own Plot. Then I sent unto them (at ver. 8.) saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them of thine own heart. They cry A Plot, and they made a Plot.
Thirdly, In the next place, Take heed that you be not feared or scared too much with the scare-crowes of the times, but go to God for boldness, that you may be emboldned with the boldness of the Holy Ghost. A timerous fearful Spirit will shrink in witness-bearing, if God come not in with boldness. You may see how they would have made Nehemiah to have ceased from the work of God, even by scaring and fearing of him, in Neh. 6. Tobiah and Sanball•t, they send unto him that they might make him cease from the work of God that was in his hand; and they say unto him, 'Tis reported that thou hast appointed to Preach at Jerusalem, saying, There is a King in Jerusalem, and now shall it be reported to the King according to these words, ver. 7. here they cry out, A Plot, a Plot: But while they cry out a Plot upon Nehemiah, the truth is, it was their own Plot. Then I sent unto them (at ver. 8.) saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them of thine own heart. They cry A Plot, and they made a Plot.