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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.
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 of all, If you ask what way God will turn the wrath of men against his people to his own praise: I answer, many ways; I shall but name them.
First, Thereby the holiness of God shall be the more exalted by the wrath of men: God spake in his holiness, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth: The holiness of God, wicked men they are but dishclouts for to make clean the Vessels of the Sanctuary; but their wrath, and by their anger and rage, they shall make clean the Saints: These dishclouts shall make clean the Saints: Thus Gods holiness shall be thereby exalted, so many Enemies, so many Schoolmasters.
2. Thereby also the power of the Lord shall be declared and manifested, by the wrath and anger of wicked men against the people of God: Is it not a ⟨p. 172⟩great deal of Gods power to preserve the poor Saints in the midst of all their rage; when wicked men have power, yet that the poor Saints should be preserved, hereby the power of the Lord is the more declared.
2. Thereby also the power of the Lord shall be declar'd and manifested, by the wrath and anger of wicked men against the people of God: Is it not a ⟨p. 172⟩great deal of Gods power to preserve the poor Saints in the midst of all their rage; when wicked men have power, yet that the poor Saints should be preserved, hereby the power of the Lord is the more declared.