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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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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.
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 mark'd 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 attatch 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.
8. If this story of Lot's Wise be true, and do live in our memory: Then here we may see what an evil thing it is to mis-choose in our choosing time. ⟨p. 248⟩Lot had two choices once, he had a choice before, when there was a difference between Abram's Servants and his, Abraham condescends, and gives him his choice: Lot thou art my younger, but I'll yield for peace sake (as we should all do for peace sake) but Lot take thy choice; all the Country was before him, and he chose Sodom, but God fired him out of that choice: Now he was to go out of Sodom, he and his Wife and Children were to go out of Sodom, and Lt (saith God) fly to the Mountain: Not so my Lord, there is little Zoar, let me go thither, and God let him have his choice, and yielded to him, but it cost him dear: What an evil thing is it to mis-choose in choosing times?