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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 look when that that hinders was taken away, then the man of sin was discovered: The mystery of iniquity did work in the Apostles time: In 2 Thes. 2. The mystery of iniquity doth already work verse 7. Only he who now letteth, will let until he be taken out of the way, and then shall that wicked one be revealed:—When is that? As Jerome and all agree, the Roman Empire was the thing that let, and about those times was the Roman Empire taken out of the way; In 410. the Goths and Vandals broke in upon Rome it self, about that time was that that let taken away.
For look when that that hinders was taken away, then the man of sin was discovered: The mistery of iniquity did work in the Apostles time: In 2 Thes. 2. The mystery of iniquity doth already work verse 7. Only he who now letteth, will let until he be taken out of the way, and then shall that wicked one be revealed:—When is that? As Jerom and all agree, the Roman Empire was the thing that let, and about those times was the Roman Empire taken out of the way; In 410. the Goths and Vandals broke in upon Rome it self, about that time was that that let taken away.
And Secondly, (I do but touch upon this, and touch I must upon it) look when the Roman Empire did fall asunder into ten Kingdoms, then did the Beast begin his forty two months, Rev. 17. 12. And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten Kings, which have received no Kingdom as yet, But receive power as Kings one hour with the Beast.
But when did the Roman Empire fall asunder into ten Kingdoms? About the year 400. 'Tis observed by good Historians, and divers, that in the year 406. Brittany and these Nations fell off from the Roman Empire, to be a Kingdom standing by it self.—Now then, if the time did begin about 400. surely the end of the time we must needs be about. I confess indeed: It is a sad thing for Christ's Witnesses to lie in Sackcloth; and to lie in Sackcloth 1260. years, but so it must be, not a day abated, but to a year, to a day. Why should you be offended friends then, at the Sackcloth and mourning condition of the Church, and Saints, and