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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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1. We must be sensible of Gods stroke. Though men be greatly afflicted, yet if they be not sensible of their affliction, and of the stroke that God gives them, says God, I have spent one rod upon them, and they do not feel it, I will lay on till blood come; God will make men sensible of their afflictions, and of the afflictions of the Church, else he lays on more.
1. We must be sensible of Gods stroke. Though men be greatly afflicted, yet if they be not sensible of their affliction, and of the stroak that God gives them, says God, I have spent one rod upon them, and they do not feel it, I will lay on till bloud come; God will make men sensible of their afflictions, and of the afflictions of the Church, else he layes on more.
2. Again, though a man be very sensible of Gods stroke and hand, yet notwithstanding, if he be not humbled under the hand of the Lord, God will not exalt him; for says the Lord, I have promised indeed, that if men humble themselves under my mighty hand, they shall be exalted; and I have said, if the people upon whom my name is called, humble themselves, I will hear. He humbled himself much. This will mortify your sins as your sins mortified and took captive your duties, and this must be don throughly, and to move us to it, 1. Take notice of the general darkness that is in the land, how sew know what they would have in a way of Reformation, what is agreeable to Gods way, Ezek. 43.10.11. The way to see stars in the day, is to go to the bottom of a well. But now here is a company are not humbled, what fashion have they left since? wherein does it appear that you are more humbled? this must be; that is the second.
2. Againe, though a man be very sensible of Gods stroak and hand, yet notwithstanding, if he be not humbled under the hand of the Lord, God will not exalt him; for sayes the Lord, I have promised indeed, that if men humble themselves under my mighty hand, they shall be exalted; and I have sayd, if the people upon whom my name is called, humble themselves, I will hear. He humbled himself much. This will mortifie your sins as your sins mortified and took captive your duties, and this must be don throughly, and to move us to it, 1. Take notice of the generall darknes that is in the land, how sew know what they would have in a way of Reformation, what is agreeable to Gods way,