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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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5. And yet farther, To say no more in it, But that she sinned also in the face of great deliverance; God had now brought her out, Husband, Children, and self, and delivered them with an high hand: To sin in the face of a deliverance wrought with an high hand, is to sin with an high hand: Such was her deliverance, wrought with an high hand, and therefore for her to sin thus, was exceeding evil, and very sinful. And thus you see what that is of ⟨p. 240⟩Lot's Wife that is to be remembered by us, namely, her sin and her punishment.
5. And yet farther, To say no more in it, But that she sinned also in the face of great deliverance; God had now brought her out, Husband, Children, and self, and delivered them with an high hand: To sin in the face of a deliverance wrought with an high hand, is to sin with an high hand: Such was her deliverance, wrought with an high hand, and therefore for her to sin thus, was exceeding evil, and very sinful. And thus you see what that is of ⟨p. 240⟩Lot's Wife that is to be remembred by us, namely, her sin and her punishment.
2. But then Secondly, Why is Lot's Wife to be remembered by us.
2. But then Secondly, Why is Lot's Wife to be remembred by us.
She is to be remembered by us, because that she is Recorded, and her Example is recorded for that end and purpose: She is hung up, and Gibbeted (as it were) for all that go by and read the Scripture to Remember.