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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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7. The last sin that makes a stop in Englands mercy, is a worldly disposition, whereby a man hangs back unto the great work of God, and the glorious reformation that is now a doing. You know that when they came out of Babylon and were to build the temple, the people were for their fieled houses, and the temple went not on so long as they stack to their fieled houses, but when once they were brought off from their fieled houses, the temple was built, and they settled. So now the Lord is about to rebuild you, and build a temple among you; if our hearts be after our fieled houses, how just is it with God to say, I thought to do you good, but you will not be at the cost; I know you would have your brethren ⟨p. 22⟩in Ireland delivered, but you will not be at the cost, you that are rich will not lend twenty, or thirty, or a hundred pounds towards it; I thought to have gone on and purged the whole Kingdom, but you will not be at the cost, you would have the pictures out of your windows, but you are loth to be at the cost to buy new glass; you would have Preaching Ministers in every Congregation, but you are loth to be at the charge; this makes a stop in our Englands mercy. Thus I have to my poor ability showed you the seven sins that make a stop in the Lords proceedings of mercy; the Lord grant we may lay them to heart, and be humbled for them.
7. The last sin that makes a stop in Englands mercy, is a worldly disposition, whereby a man hangs back unto the great work of God, and the glorious reformation that is now a doing. You know that when they came out of Babilon and were to build the temple, the people were for their fieled houses, and the temple went not on so long as they stack to their fieled houses, but when once they were brought off from their fieled houses, the temple was built, and they setled. So now the Lord is about to rebuild you, and build a temple among you; if our hearts be after our fieled houses, how just is it with God to say, I thought to do you good, but you will not be at the cost; I know you would have your brethren ⟨p. 22⟩in Ireland delivered, but you will not be at the cost, you that are rich will not lend twenty, or thirty, or a hundred pounds towards it; I thought to have gon on and purged the whole Kingdom, but you will not be at the cost, you would have the pictures out of your windowes, but you are loth to be at the cost to buy new glasse; you would have Preaching Ministers in every Congregation, but you are loth to be at the charge; this makes a stop in our Englands mercy. Thus I have to my poore abilty shewed you the seven sins that make a stop in the Lords proceedings of mercy; the Lord grant we may lay them to heart, and be humbled for them.