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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.
4. Again, look when the Saints and people of God, the members of the Solemn Assembly; Look when they are scattered & driven one from another that they cannot meet together, then the Solemn Assembly lies under reproach: Therefore saith the Prophet here; I will gather them that are sorrowful for the Solemn Assembly; I will gather them to ⟨p. 190⟩whom the Reproach of it was a burden; as if the Reproach lay in the scattering; and at the 20th. verse I will bring you again even in the time that I gather you, and will make you a Name and a Praise, in all the places where ye have been put to shame: So that the scattering of the members of the Solemn Assembly is a Reproach; and then the Solemn Assembly lies under Reproach.
4. Again, look when the Saints and people of God, the members of the Solemn Assembly; Look when they are scattered & driven one from another that they cannot meet together, then the Solemn Assembly lyes under reproach: Therefore saith the Prophet here; I will gather them that are sorrowful for the Solemn Assembly; I will gather them to ⟨p. 190⟩whom the Reproach of it was a burthen; as if the Reproach lay in the scattering; and at the 20th. verse I will bring you again even in the time that I gather you, and will make you a Name and a Praise, in all the places where ye have been put to shame: So that the scattering of the members of the Solemn Assembly is a Reproach; and then the Solemn Assembly lies under Reproach.
5. And lastly, Look when the state and condition of the Solemn Assembly is such, as that no man cares for it, nor seeks for it, then it lies under Reproach: Such a state sometimes the Solemn Assembly falls into: This is Zion whom no man seeketh after; This is Zion whom no man careth for: The Magistrate doth not care for it to countenance it: It hath no friends for to help it: if you see a poor man in the streets, neglected, none cares for him, none countenances him, none looks after him to care for him, and to help him: You say he lies under Reproach. So when the Solemn Assembly is in such a case and condition, that none cares for it, nor seeks for the welfare of it: Those that are in place, especially, then the Solemn Assembly lies under Reproach.