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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
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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.
Yea, the Saints are not only quiet, meek and peaceable, but beneficial to the men where they live. The innocent delivers the Land: Yet notwithstanding, saith Solomon in Eccles. 9. I have seen a sore evil under the Sun, there was a little City, and few men within it: And there came a great King against it, and besieged it and built great Bulwarks against it: Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the City, yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength, nevertheless the poor mans Wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. So though the Saints and people of God do deliver a Nation, and are exceeding beneficial to the people where they live, and where they are, yet they shall be despised, yet there shall be wrath and malice in the hearts of men against the Saints of God.
Yea, the Saints are not only quiet, meek and peaceable, but beneficial to the men where they live. The innocent delivers the Land: Yet notwithstanding, saith Solomon in Eccles. 9. I have seen a sore evil under the Sun, there was a little City, and few men within it: And there came a great King against it, and besieged it and built great Bulwarks against it: Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdome delivered the City, yet no man remembred that same poor man. Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength, nevertheless the poor mans Wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. So though the Saints and people of God do deliver a Nation, and are exceeding beneficial to the people where they live, and where they are, yet they shall be despised, yet there shall be wrath and malice in the hearts of men against the Saints of God.
But you will say, how doth this come to pass, that there should be such a deal of wrath and malice in the hearts of men against the people of God?