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Two sermons viz. I. The diseases that make a stoppage to Englands mercies discovered…
Two sermons viz. I. The diseases that make a stoppage to Englands mercies discovered and attended with their remedies : in a sermon delivered at Margaretson Fish-street-hill, London : II. A preparation for suffering in these plundering times / by William Bridge ...Two sermons viz. I. The diseases that make a stoppage to Englands mercies discovered and attended with their remedies : in a sermon delivered at Margaretson Fish-street-hill, London : II. A preperation for suffering in these plundering times / by William Bridge ...
London: printed for Benjamin Allen, 1642
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Observ. 1 Where God is in a way of mercy towards his people, there sin does make a stoppage in his proceedings: So here God was in a way of mercy towards his people, carrying of them into the land of Canaan, but in the way they sin, Achan plays the thief, mark what a stoppage this made in the way of mercy; So you have it in Joshua 24.20. Though God be about to do you good, and have done you good, yet If you forsake the Lord, and serve strange gods, he will turn from the good he is a doing, and do you hurt, after he hath done you good. So in Jer. 28.9. At what instant I shall say or speak concerning a Nation, and concerning a Kingdom, to build, and to plant it: that is, At what time I shall give sensible testimony of good to a land or nation; If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, &c. So that sins committed against God when he is in a way of mercy, do make a stoppage in those proceedings of mercy. There are these two or three reasons for it:
Observ. 1 Where God is in a way of mercie towards his people, there sin does make a stoppage in his proceedings: So here God was in a way of mercie towards his people, carrying of them into the land of Canaan, but in the way they sin, Achan playes the thief, mark what a stopage this made in the way of mercie; So you have it in Joshua 24.20. Though God be about to do you good, and have done you good, yet If you forsake the Lord, and serve strange gods, he will turn from the good he is a doing, and do you hurt, after he hath done you good. So in Jer. 28.9. At what instant I shall say or speak concerning a Nation, and concerning a Kingdom, to build, and to plant it: that is, At what time I shall give sensible testimony of good to a land or nation; If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, &c. So that sins committed against God when he is in a way of mercy, do make a stopage in those proceedings of mercie. There are these two or three reasons for it: