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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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And the Saints and people of God, they are well pleased in this sense. It is Recorded of Nazianzen, that knowing there would be freedom from sin in Heaven, he desired to dye: But then remembering that there would be no mourning for sin in Heaven, nor for the miseries of the Church, he desired to live: Choosing rather to mourn for sin, and the miseries of the Church, than to be freed from sin: here was a Spirit. 'Tis said of the true Griever, he grieves, and he doth rejoice in his grief; A man that doth truly grieve, he doth grieve, and he doth rejoice in his grief: So that in this sense of the Reproach of the Solemn Assembly, God himself is well pleased therewith, and the Saints are well pleased therein.
And the Saints and people of God, they are well pleased in this sense. It is Recorded of Nazianzen, that knowing there would be freedom from sin in Heaven, he desired to dye: But then remembring that there would be no mourning for sin in Heaven, nor for the miseries of the Church, he desired to live: Chusing rather to mourn for sin, and the miseries of the Church, than to be freed from sin: here was a Spirit. 'Tis said of the true Griever, he grieves, and he doth rejoyce in his grief; A man that doth truely grieve, he doth grieve, and he doth rejoyce in his grief: So that in this sense of the Reproach of the Solemn Assembly, God himself is well pleased therewith, and the Saints are well pleased therein.
2. But Secondly, Do you ask what there is in the Reproach of this Solemn Assembly, that the Saints and People of God should be so much affected with it?
I Answer, There is a darkness falls upon the greatest Organ of Light: The greatest Organ of light is eclipsed; all eclipsed, and the greater Vessel or Organ of light is eclipsed, the more dreadful is the Eclipse: The Sun eclipsed, that ⟨p. 200⟩