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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.
6. If this story of Lot's Wife be true, and live in our memory, then here we may learn by way of ⟨p. 247⟩Instruction; 'Tis ill sinning when God is punishing: It's good begging while God is giving; but O 'tis ill sinning while God is punishing: If he be angry, yea but a little, blessed are all those that trust in him: Be wise now therefore O ye Kings; be instructed ye Judges of the Earth, serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling: Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way. The way, What way? Why, in the way of his judgments; When God is fetching his stroke at a people, stand out of the way then of Gods stroke: God was striking at Sodom, and Lot's Wife came in the way of his stroke, and she dyed for it; It's ill sinning, when God is punishing.
6. If this story of Lot's Wife be true, and live in our memory, then here we may learn by way of ⟨p. 247⟩Instruction; 'Tis ill sinning when God is punishing: It's good begging while God is giving; but O 'tis ill sinning while God is punishing: If he be angry, yea but a little, blessed are all those that trust in him: Be wise now therefore O ye Kings; be instructed ye Judges of the Earth, serve the Lord with fear, and rejoyce with trembling: Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way. The way, What way? Why, in the way of his judgments; When God is fetching his stroke at a people, stand out of the way then of Gods stroke: God was striking at Sodom, and Lot's Wife came in the way of his stroke, and she dyed for it; It's ill sinning, when God is punishing.
7. If that this story be true, and live in your memory, then here you may learn, That those that are exemplary in sinning, shall be exemplary in punishing: She was the first that sinned this kind of sin, and the first that fell under such a Judgement. The Lord marked Jeroboam, Jeroboam the Son of Nebat, that made Israel to sin; Why he was the first, and God set a mark upon him. This is that wicked Ahaz, that in the time of his affliction sinned yet more: What a mark did God set upon Judas, in his life, in his death? Why he was the first that made a treacherous retreat from the Gospel; He was the head of those Halbertiers that came to attach Christ: So an Apostate, usually doth head the persecuting party, but God set a mark upon him. Those that are first in sin, and those that are exemplary in sinning, God will make exemplary in punishment.