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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.
It may be, not legally, for it is not said here, And I will give power unto them to shut the Heavens: but these have power to shut the Heavens, and these have power to turn waters into blood; 'tis not said here, I will give them power, as 'tis said before: it may be this may be done, and not legally.
But when shall this be done?
It must be done immediately before their slaying. I pray mark the coherence here: They shall have power to shut the Heavens immediately before they are slain, and to turn water into blood immediately before they are slain, just before the three years and a half, that they lye dead upon the earth: For when did Elijah shut the Heavens but immediately before the three years and a half of drought: When did Moses turn the waters into blood, but immediately before the coming out of the Children of Israel out of Egypt: So here, immediately before the Witnesses are slain, and they lye three years and a half as dead, immediately before, they have power to shut the Heavens that it rain not, and to turn waters into blood.
Now therefore to draw to a Conclusion; whensoever you see all these things come to pass. I will not apply them to times or places, this or that time or place: But when you shall see all these things come to pass, one treading upon the heel of another: when you shall see that the Witnesses have power to shut the Heavens that it rain not: to restrain the highest powers both in Church and State from their wonted influence. And that they have power to turn water into blood, and still Nations into War; and then immediately upon it they shall be slain, and so lye dead, deprived of their functions and vital operations, as if they lay dead. Then lift up your heads, and comfortably say, hopefully say, Now, now comes the three years and half, which is the last time: Now is our Salvation near, for God will bring near his righteousness, and his Salvation shall not tarry. And he will place Salvation in Zion, for Israel his glory.