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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.
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.
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 burthen of it: Certainly you have been sensible.
But whereas you say, This Promise doth run conditionally, and this Condition you have not attained: Give me leave to say to you; Do you rightly understand a Condition? A Condition properly is that upon the account whereof a thing is done, and without which thing it cannot be done.
As for example, I sell my Commodity for Money, now upon the account you pay so much Money, I give you the commodity, and without that I do not give it: Now I pray, will you say, that your own sense at the highest, is that upon the account whereof God will show mercy? or will you say that God will not show mercy unless you have sense? We find that God doth return unto his people first, and