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Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…
Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithfull Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...
London: printed by J.T., 1658
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.
Again men seem to overthrow the church, as one that setteth his shoulder against a great stone to overthrow it, but in the end the stone falleth back again, and crusheth him to pieces. So doth God deal with the church, men seem sometimes almost to overthrow it, it seemeth sometime to be at the point of utter undoing, but yet nevertheless it falleth back again upon them like a mighty stone too heavy and weighty for them that meddle with it, Even so shall the enemies of the church be ruinated, and crushed with it.
Again men seem to overthrow the church, as one that setteth his shoulder against a great stone to overthrow it, but in the end the stone falleth back again, and crusheth him to pieces. So doth God deal with the church, men seem sometimes almost to overthrow it, it seemeth sometime to be at the point of utter undoing, but yet neverthelesse it falleth back again upon them like a mighty stone too heavy and weighty for them that meddle with it, Even so shall the enemies of the church be ruinated, and crushed with it.
Last of all the church seemeth to be covered with the enemies, and to be pressed down with them as a few coals are pressed down with an heap of wood; such a pressure seems the Church to be under sometimes, yet you know though the coals be few, yet a little fire will devour all that wood, this you shall find to be the issue of the church in ⟨p. 25⟩thus it was with Jerusalem, and thus you shall find it to be with the Churches that seem now to be overpressed, and overthrown, and swallowed up with the enemies, it shall be as a cup of poison to destroy the enemy, as a mighty stone to crush them in pieces, as a fire in the midst of a bundle of wood to devour them.
Last of all the church seemeth to be covered with the enemies, and to be prest down with them as a few coals are pressed down with an heap of wood; such a pressure seemes the Church to be under sometimes, yet you know though the coals be few, yet a little fire will devour all that wood, this you shal find to be the issue of the church in ⟨p. 25⟩