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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.
7. Look when the Solemn Assembly doth lie un-under Reproach, then the world is scandalized, and the world's offended. Woe to the world because of •ffences, 'tis an evil thing that the world should be offended. When is the world offended? when the Solemn Assembly lies under Reproach? aha, so would we have it: Then they laugh, saith Paul, who is offended, and I burn not. We say, when the sick man laughs, the Physician cries, he is distracted saith he. Why now the Saints and People of God, they are the worlds Physicians to cure them, and heal them, by their lives, and prayers, and instructions. What do they laugh? what do they say? Aha, so would we have it. But when the Solemn Assembly lies under Reproach, then is the world offended: Then therefore is the time for the Saints and people of God to be much affected.
7. Look when the Solemn Assembly doth lie un-under Reproach, then the world is scandalized, and the world's offended. Wo to the world because of •ffences, 'tis an evil thing that the world should be offended. When is the world offended? when the Solemn Assembly lies under Reproach? aha, so would we have it: Then they laugh, saith Paul, who is offended, and I burn not. We say, when the sick man laughs, the Physician crys, he is distracted saith he. Why now the Saints and People of God, they are the worlds Physicians to cure them, and heal them, by their lives, and prayers, and instructions. What do they laugh? what do they say? Aha, so would we have it. But when the Solemn Assembly lies under Reproach, then is the world offended: Then therefore is the time for the Saints and people of God to be much affected.
8. Look when the Solemn Assembly doth lie under Reproach, then the Devil gets up again: The Devil falls by the powerful preaching of the Gospel, saith our Saviour Christ. Rejoice not that the Devils fall down like lightning before you. What fall? what doth our Saviour Christ speak of the Devils first fall? no surely, but of his fall by the preaching of the Gospel. When the Gospel is powerfully preached, then the Devil falls: But when the Solemn Assembly lies under Reproach, he gets up again: And what good man would not grieve, when he sees how the Devil gets up again? especially if he have seen the falling of the Devil before?