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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.
And then if so, That these be the Witnesses.
Here we may see who those are that are fit to bear witness of Christ in Antichristian times, to bear their Testimony.—They are to be a fruitful, profitable people, And a lightsome people, that can hold forth light unto others in some measure:—What more fruitful and profitable than the Olive-tree? There's nothing unprofitable; The Bark, Oil; the Leaf, Oil; the Body, Oil; the Fruit, Oil; nothing unprofitable: So the Saints of God, they ⟨p. 111⟩are the Sons and Daughters of Oil, nothing but profit. The wicked indeed are compared to the green Bay-tree; barren, unprofitable: But the Godly are compared in Scripture to the Olive-tree, nothing not profitable: The Wicked are compared to Goats, the Saints are compared to Sheep: Sheep, nothing not profitable: Their wool profitable, their flesh profitable; their very dung profitable: Nothing not profitable: And here, the Witnesses of Christ, they are the Olive-tree; fruitful, and a profitable people; and a people in some measure fit to give light to others, as the Candlestick, to hold forth light unto others.
Here we may see who those are that are fit to bear witness of Christ in Antichristian times, to bear their Testimony.—They are to be a fruitful, profitable people, And a lightsom people, that can hold forth light unto others in some measure:—What more fruitful and profitable than the Olive-tree? There's nothing unprofitable; The Bark, Oyl; the Leaf, Oyl; the Body, Oyl; the Fruit, Oyl; nothing unprofitable: So the Saints of God, they ⟨p. 111⟩are the Sons and Daughters of Oyl, nothing but profit. The wicked indeed are compared to the green Bay-tree; barren, unprofitable: But the Godly are compared in Scripture to the Olive-tree, nothing not profitable: The Wicked are compared to Goats, the Saints are compared to Sheep: Sheep, nothing not profitable: Their wool profitable, their flesh profitable; their very dung profitable: Nothing not profitable: And here, the Witnesses of Christ, they are the Olive-tree; fruitful, and a profitable people; and a people in some measure fit to give light to others, as the Candlestick, to hold forth light unto others.