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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. The Saints and People of God will search into their own ways, and turn from the evil of those ways that have had a hand in bringing in this reproach upon the Solemn Assembly: They will search and turn. In vain is the sense, when there is no emendation. Is it such a day as I have chosen, for a man to hang down his head? No, To relieve the oppressed, to take off the yokes and burdens: Reformation: But what is it a dull Reformation? No, but it is a Reformation lead on by prayer, and fasting, and it is such a prayer as is backed with Reformation: And thus the people of God are affected under the Reproach of the Solemn Assembly.
4. The Saints and People of God will search into their own waies, and turn from the evil of those waies that have had a hand in bringing in this reproach upon the Solemn Assembly: They will search and turn. In vain is the sense, when there is no emendation. Is it such a day as I have chosen, for a man to hang down his head? No, To relieve the oppressed, to take off the yokes and burthens: Reformation: But what is it a dull Reformation? No, but it is a Reformation lead on by prayer, and fasting, and it is such a prayer as is back'd with Reformation: And thus the people of God are affected under the Reproach of the Solemn Assembly.
3. But then secondly, you will say: What is there in this Reproach of the Solemn Assembly, that the Saints and people of God should be so much affected with it?
What, what not?