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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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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.
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?
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. Rejoyce 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?
9. Look when the Solemn Assembly doth lie under Reproach, then you have a certain presage of a Famine of the hearing of the word. If one could assure you, that for certain there would be a Famine of Bread, you would be much affected. Why the reproach of the Solemn Assembly is a certain presage of a Famine of the word, and the hearing of the word, a certain presage of it.
10. The more that any good man hath any hand in any great evil that is come, the more he is affected there withal. 'Tis fabled of the Eagle, that when the Eagle was shot, looking upon her wound, she was troubled: But when she looked upon the Arrow, and saw the feathers of the Arrow; nay then saith she, I am killed, and am destroyed by some of my own kind, in regard of the feathers; and this wounded her again, and troubled her more, that she was destroyed by some of her own kind. And truly, when a good man looks upon the reproach of the Solemn Assembly, may he not see his own feathers? Yes, This reproach of the Solemn Assembly have I had a hand in. No wonder therefore that it doth grieve him, and that he is much affected.