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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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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 ⟨p. 208⟩Prison, he is sensible of the smell of the Prison, afterwards he is not sensible of his sense, but he hath a sense still: So now it may be, you have been so used to be sensible of the Reproach of the Solemn Assembly; that it may be you are not sensible of your sense.
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 s•nsible of the sense that he hath of the cause and misery of the people of God. When a poor man comes first into the ⟨p. 208⟩Prison, he is sensible of the smell of the Prison, afterwards he is not sensible of his sense, but he hath a sense still: So now it may be, you have been so used to be sensible of the Reproach of the Solemn Assembly; that it may be you are not sensible of your sense.
But I pray tell me, If that you have born the Reproach of the Solemn Assembly upon your hearts before God in private? Have you not been sensible? If you have fasted and prayed in reference to the Reproach of the Solemn Assembly: Have you not been sensible? Our Saviour Christ expounds the one by the other. There came to Christ the Disciples of John, saying: Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy Disciples fast not? Jesus said unto them: Can the Children of the Bride-chamber mourn, &c? he expounds fasting by mourning: and if you have been more afflicted with the Reproach of the Solemn Assembly, than of any other thing, and have walked heavily under the burden of it: Certainly you have been sensible.