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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.
You will say, this comfort doth relate to the future, but I have none for the present.
Yes, you know 'tis said, the Lord comforteth in all our tribulations; 'tis not said after our tribulations, but in them: There is comfort in our tribulations; Blessed are the poor in Spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of God: Blessed are those that mourn, they shall be comforted: and blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God: But blessed are the poor in Spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of God: So that here's comfort for the present.
But you will say, All this comfort hangs upon a condition, This Promise doth run conditionally. Here's a great Promise of comfort indeed, but it is upon condition, being sensible of the Reproach of the Solemn Assembly, and I have not been sensible, and I am not sensible.
No, pray stay a little: Not sensible! It may be you are not sensible of your sense: As a man may be sensible of his unsensibleness, so a man may be unsensible of his sense: As a man may not believe that he doth believe; So a man may not be sensible of the sense that he hath of the cause and misery of the people of God. When a poor man comes first into the