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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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But Thirdly, Then the Name of the Lord is dishonoured: The Reproaches of them that Reproached thee have fallen upon me: And so the other way; The Reproaches of them that Reproach us, and the Solemn Assemblies, are fallen upon thee O Lord, and upon thy Name. There are three or four things that God doth much delight in, in the world; his Truth, his Worship, his People, 1his Name. When the Solemn Assembly is under Reproach, his Truth is derided, his Worship defiled, his Children persecuted, and his Name dishonoured: Who can behold all these things and not bleed; and not be affected there withal? That's a third.
But Thirdly, Then the Name of the Lord is dishonoured: The Reproaches of them that Reproached thee have fallen upon me: And so the other way; The Reproaches of them that Reproach us, and the Solemn Assemblies, are fallen upon thee O Lord, and upon thy Name. There are three or four things that God doth much delight in, in the world; his Truth, his Worship, his People, 1his Name. When the Solemn Assembly is under Reproach, his Truth is derided, his Worship defiled, his Children persecuted, and his Name dishonoured: Who can behold all these things and not bleed; and not be affected there withall? That's a third.
- 1Things God delights in.
4. Look when the Solemn Assembly doth lie under Reproach, then all the People of God, the whole Generation of the Righteous are afflicted, distressed, and as a Lamp despised before him, that is at ease: Who would not grieve to see the necks of all the people of God lye upon the block together, ready to be cut off? Pray do but mind that place in Esther, 'Tis said there, that when the Decree came out upon the Jews, that their necks lay all upon the block, in the third of Esther, The Decree was given in Shushan the Palace, and the King and Haman sate down to drink, but the City Shushan was perplexed: The City Shushan, Why the City Shushan? 'Tis not said the Jews: What was the City Shushan, Jews? No, there were a hundred to one in the City,