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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.
8. The Saints and people of God are righteous in their Generation: The men of the World cannot endure the truth of the Generation, the Grace of the ⟨p. 169⟩Generation, the righteousness of the Generation, they cannot endure it.
9. The Saints and people of God, they have, and they are stamped with the Image of God: the Image of Christ is stamped upon them; and the more that any man is stamped with the Image of God, the more the men of the world hate him. Why there are the footsteps of God in the Creatures; man at the Creation was made after the Image of God, now being raised again by Christ, the very image of God is stamped upon the Saints, and wicked men cannot endure to see the Image of God; the more they see the Image of God shining forth in any man, the more angry they are. But now the Saints, they have the Image of God stamped upon them, and therefore no wonder that they are thus angry. And thus you see what kind of wrath it is that is in the hearts of the men of the world against the people of God: and how it comes to pass that there is such a deal of wrath in the hearts of wicked men against the people of God.
9. The Saints and people of God, they have, and they are stampt with the Image of God: the Image of Christ is stampt upon them; and the more that any man is stampt with the Image of God, the more the men of the world hate him. Why there are the footsteps of God in the Creatures; man at the Creation was made after the Image of God, now being raised again by Christ, the very image of God is stampt upon the Saints, and wicked men cannot endure to see the Image of God; the more they see the Image of God shining forth in any man, the more angry they are. But now the Saints, they have the Image of God stampt upon them, and therefore no wonder that they are thus angry. And thus you see what kind of wrath it is that is in the hearts of the men of the world against the people of God: and how it comes to pass that there is such a deal of wrath in the hearts of wicked men against the people of God.