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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.
If you ask what this Sackcloth means: It represents the sad, and afflicted, and mournful condition that the Saints and people of God shall be in, in Antichristian times. When the Jews of old mourned, and were afflicted, they put on Sackcloth: The Princes put on Sackcloth, and the Priests put on Sackcloth, and the people put on Sackcloth: So here, the Witnesses clothed in Sackcloth;—What doth this mean, but their sad, and afflicted, and mournful condition? Such it is, and must be in Antichristian times.
For is it not a sad thing, and mournful, for the holy City to be trodden underfoot by the Gentiles? so it shall be in Antichristian times.
For is it not a sad thing, and mournful, for the holy City to be troden underfoot by the Gentiles? so it shall be in Antichristi•n times.
Is it not a sad and mournful thing for the Church of God to be hidden, the inner Court to be hidden? Indeed a hidden Church is a true Church; a scattered Flock is a true Flock, and a scattered Church is a true Church: But is it not a sad thing for Churches to be hidden; the Church of God to be hidden? Why so it must be in Antichristian times. I remember Mr. Brightman saith, when the Woman is in the Wilderness, she must not think that there will be Congregations so visible; but in a Wilderness here and there, or in a Forrest, here and there is a house; and here and there you meet with a man; But you meet not with great Towns, and Corporations in a Wilderness, or in a Forrest: So when the Church is in the Wilderness, here and there a knot of Saints, and here and there a knot of ⟨p. 113⟩meeting: But Corporations and Churches then are hidden: Is it not a sad thing now I say? Yet thus it must be.