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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.
But I pray now, have you cast up the account, how many are wanting upon the Muster? In the 14. Rev. In the 7th. chap. The Saints are mustered before they go into the times of Anti-christ ver. 4. And I heard the number of them which were sealed, and there were sealed 144000. And then in the 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. chapters comes in the times of Anti-christ, and bloody times. Now in the 14. chap. vers. 1. They are accounted over after the times of Anti-christ; and how many are wanting: And I looked, and lo a Lamb stood on the Mount Zion, and with him 144000. having his Fathers Name written in their foreheads, here's not one wanting: Christ will lose not one; not o•e lost. By all the persecution of Anti-christ, th• Church shall not lose one: In the letter end, here's just as many to a One, as was in the beginning. We think few or none will stand in these days: So Elijah thought And I only am left alone, but he was deceived: There's 7000. men that will not bow the knee to Baal. And so we may ⟨p. 109⟩think, few or none will stand, but we may be deceived, God hath his seven thousands that we know not off. Though but few, yet enough, Christ will always have enough to bear witness to his Truth in the darkest times, Two Witnesses. This for their Number.
But I pray now, have you cast up the account, how many are wanting upon the Muster? In the 14. Rev. In the 7th. chap. The Saints are mustered before they go into the times of Anti-christ ver. 4. And I heard the number of them which were sealed, and there were sealed 144000. And then in the 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. chapters comes in the times of Anti-christ, and bloody times. Now in the 14. chap. vers. 1. They are accounted over after the times of Anti-christ; and how many are wanting: And I looked, and lo a Lamb stood on the Mount Sion, and with him 144000. having his Fathers Name written in their foreheads, here's not one wanting: Christ will lose not one; not o•e lost. By all the persecution of Anti-christ, th• Church shall not lose one: In the letter end, here's just as many to a One, as was in the beginning. We think few or none will stand in these daies: So Eliah thought And I only am left alone, but he was deceived: There's 7000. men that will not bow the knee to Baal. And so we may ⟨p. 109⟩