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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.
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.
Is it not a sad thing for the Vessels of the Temple to be defiled? So it must be in Antichristian times.