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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.
First, These have a power to shut Heaven, that it rain not, in the days of their Prophecy: What's that? Certainly, it must relate unto Elijah: That Elijah prayed, and by his prayer he shut the Heavens that it rained not for three years and an half: Plainly it relates unto Elijah as can be: Elijah prayed, and by his prayer he shut the Heavens that it rained not for three years and a half.
First, These have a power to shut Heaven, that it rain not, in the daies of their Prophesie: What's that? Certainly, it must relate unto Elijah: That Elijah prayed, and by his prayer he shut the Heavens that it rained not for three years and an half: Plainly it relates unto Elijah as can be: Elijah prayed, and by his prayer he shut the Heavens that it rained not for three years and a half.
Well, but what are the Heavens here?
Those cannot be understood literally, but spiritually: As it is said in the 8th verse, Their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great City, which Spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt: The Heavens here cannot be understood literally, but spiritually; what then? what are the Heavens then, and what is the shutting of the Heavens that it rain not.
Those cannot be understood litterally, but spiritually: As it is said in the 8th verse, Their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great City, which Spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt: The Heavens here cannot be understood litterally, but spiritually; what then? what are the Heavens then, and what is the shutting of the Heavens that it rain not.