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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.
But Thirdly, yet more largely: Prophesy is took for a declaring and making known of the Mind and Will of God, and so all those that do declare and make known the Mind and Will of Jesus Christ, they are said to be Prophets, and so I take it here: For I pray do but mark, This their Prophesying and Witness-bearing seems to be all one: I will give power unto my two Witnesses, and they shall Prophesy:—And when they shall have finished their Testimony, their witness bearing; He should have said, when they have finished their Prophecy: True, But he would show that their Witness-bearing and Prophecy is all one; And so compare chap. 19. and chap. 22. of the Revelations together, and you will find the same, I fell at his feet and worshipped him, and he said unto me, see thou do it not, I am thy fellow servant, and of thy Brethren, that have the testimony of Jesus: and chap. 22. I fell at his feet, and he said unto me see thou do it not, for I am thy fellow servant, and of thy Brethren the Prophets; Of thy Brethren the Prophets, here in chap. 22. is all one, with thy Brethren that have the Testimony of Jesus, In the 19th. and saith he there, Worship God, for the Testimony of Jesus, is the Spirit of Prophecy: It's the same word that's used, when they had ⟨p. 118⟩finished their Testimony, or Witness-bearing: The witness of Jesus, is the Spirit of Prophecy: This bearing witness to the truths of Jesus, this is Prophecy: And thus now the Witnesses, they are said to Prophesy.
But Thirdly, yet more largely: Prophesie is took for a declaring and making known of the Mind and Will of God, and so all those that do declare and make known the Mind and Will of Jesus Christ, they are said to be Prophets, and so I take it here: For I pray do but mark, This their Prophesying and Witness-bearing seems to be all one: I will give power unto my two Witnesses, and they shall Prophesie:—And when they shall have finished their Testimony, their witness bearing; He should have said, when they have finished their Prophesie: True, But he would shew that their Witness-bearing and Prophesie is all one; And so compare chap. 19. and chap. 22. of the Revelations together, and you will find the same, I fell at his feet and worshipped him, and he said unto me, see thou do it not, I am thy fellow servant, and of thy Brethren, that have the testimony of Jesus: and chap. 22. I fell at his feet, and he said unto me see thou do it not, for I am thy fellow servant, and of thy Brethren the Prophets; Of thy Brethren the Prophets, here in chap. 22. is all one, with thy Brethren that have the Testimony of Jesus, In the 19th. and saith he there, Worship God, for the Testimony of Jesus, is the Spirit of Prophesie: It's the same word that's used, when they had