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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.
1. She is to be remembered by us in a way of reflection, again and again to mind the story and example of Lot's Wife: You may oftentimes read the story, and may have forgot the same, but as the clean beast was to chew the Cud, which in the Hebrew is a bringing of the Meat into the mouth again: So you may have oftentimes eaten up this story of Lot's Wife, but you are to chew the Cud, and bring it into your Memory again, to remember it in a way of reflection.
1. She is to be remembred by us in a way of reflection, again and again to mind the story and example of Lot's Wife: You may oftentimes read the story, and may have forgot the same, but as the clean beast was to chew the Cud, which in the Hebrew is a bringing of the Meat into the mouth again: So you may have oftentimes eaten up this story of Lot's Wife, but you are to chew the Cud, and bring it into your Memory again, to remember it in a way of reflection.
2. In a way of meditation, I remember all thy marvellous works, and meditate thereon saith David: Remembrance without meditation will do little good, it must be remembrance with meditation: And
3. As it must be with Meditation, so with an holy Fear, and Reverence, and Adoration. I have read of a Heathen, that when he came by the Gallows, he would always put off his Hat and bow, and say, God save Justice: And so now, when we come by this Gibbet, we should not come by, but bow with Fear, and Reverence, and Adoration, adoring the Justice and the Sovereignty of God in his proceedings. We are to remember Lot's Wife in a way of Fear, and Reverence, and Adoration.
3. As it must be with Meditation, so with an holy Fear, and Reverence, and Adoration. I have read of a Heathen, that when he came by the Gallows, he would alwayes put off his Hat and bow, and say, God save Justice: And so now, when we come by this Gibbit, we should not come by, but bow with Fear, and Reverence, and Adoration, adoring the Justice and the Soveraignty of God in his proceedings. We are to remember Lot's Wife in a way of Fear, and Reverence, and Adoration.