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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.
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.
The Heavens are the highest power, so that look when the Witnesses have power to restrain the highest power in Church and State from their wonted influence; then is this word fulfilled, that they have power to shut Heaven that it rain not in the days of their Prophecy: I say the Heavens are the highest powers: look when the Witnesses do restrain the highest power in Church and State from their wonted influence, Then is this word fulfilled.
The Heavens are the highest power, so that look when the Witnesses have power to restrain the highest power in Church and State from their wonted influence; then is this word fulfilled, that they have power to shut Heaven that it rain not in the days of their Prophesie: I say the Heavens are the highest powers: look when the Witnesses do restrain the highest power in Church and State from their wonted influence, Then is this word fulfilled.