A29372:711
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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11. When the Solemn Assembly doth lie under reproach, God is departed. Take away God, and I am no body saith one. A good heart will always say so: Take away God, and I am no body. Now when the reproach lies upon the Solemn Assembly, then God is gone. God is so much departed, and so much gone, as the Solemn Assembly lies under reproach; so much we do bear the badges of Gods departure.
11. When the Solemn Assembly doth lie under reproach, God is departed. Take away God, and I am no body saith one. A good heart will alwayes say so: Take away God, and I am no body. Now when the reproach lies upon the Solemn Assembly, then God is gone. God is so much departed, and so much gone, as the Solemn Assembly lies under reproach; so much we do bear the badges of Gods departure.
Do you then ask me, what there is in this reproach of the Solemn Assembly, that the Saints should be so much affected there withal? There ⟨p. 204⟩are these two things, and judge you whether there be not cause, that all the Saints and people of God should be much affected, and carry it as a burden upon their souls, when the Solemn Assembly lies under reproach? And thus I have done with the second thing, that those that are of them: Those that are the true Members of the Solemn Assembly, they will be very sensible of it: And you see the reasons of it.
Do you then ask me, what there is in this reproach of the Solemn Assembly, that the Saints should be so much affected there withall? There ⟨p. 204⟩are these two things, and judge you whether there be not cause, that all the Saints and people of God should be much affected, and carry it as a burthen upon their souls, when the Solemn Assembly lies under reproach? And thus I have done with the second thing, that those that are of them: Those that are the true Members of the Solemn Assembly, they will be very sensible of it: And you see the reasons of it.