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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.
Then it is our duty for to bear our Testimony.
Then it is our duty for to wait on God; though the Witnesses wear Sackcloth for a time, yet there are white Robes provided for them, and they come out with Palms in their hands.
And the nearer the time of Deliverance grows, the less time for waiting, the more we are engaged to wait: Why now according to the calculation, there is not much of the time to come; there is but a little of the Sackcloth time to come, shall we not watch with him one hour, and wear Sackcloth with him one hour? wait a while, he that shall come, will come, and will not tarry. And so I have done with the third thing; namely, what this Sackcloth is, and their lying in Sackcloth for 1260. years.
And the nearer the time of Deliverance grows, the less time for waiting, the more we are ingaged to wait: Why now according to the calculation, there is not much of the time to come; there is but a little of the Sackcloth time to come, shall we not watch with him one hour, and wear Sackcloth with him one hour? wait a while, he that shall come, will come, and will not tarry. And so I have done with the third thing; namely, what this Sackcloth is, and their lying in Sackcloth for 1260. years.