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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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3. Though that a man be humbled, yet notwithstanding if he does not pray, and cry mightily to God, he ⟨p. 25⟩cannot fetch God back again, for says God I am engaged to my word, and I walk by rule; when I threatened Nineveh, the King went from his throne and went in sackcloth and ashes, and they cried mightily unto me, and do you think if you do not cry mightily that I will return in mercy to you? oh says God I have given you more then Nineveh, you know more and you must do more, they cried mightily, and shall not you cry mightily? we must pray more then ordinary, so did Moses, and for motives to it: 1. It is all that some of you can do, you cannot help otherwayes by building God an house, lending money, &c. but you may pray. 2. If you be idle you will envy those that do pray; for it is a sure rule, those that stand by will envy the workmen, and what that will do, you may in Cain to Abel, when his sacrifice was rejected. 3. The scales may seem to hang even, it may be your grain of prayer, may turn them to mercy. 4. The Lord seems to be going, he is rising; when the Judge sits still, the malefactor does not lift up his voice and cry after him; but when the malefactor is condemned, and the Judge riseth and goes off the bench, then the poor malefactor lifteth up his voice, and cries, good my Lord, good my Lord. So when God is rising and going off the bench, shall not men cry, and cry mightily unto him, pray, and pray mightily unto him? Beloved, the Lord seems to be going off the bench, oh you that never prayed, now pray; you that have despised prayer, and praying meetings, now pray; you that have a heart to pray, pray now, & cry mightily unto the Lord your God.
3. Though that a man be humbled, yet notwithstanding if he does not pray, and cry mightily to God, he ⟨p. 25⟩cannot fetch God back againe, for sayes God I am engaged to my word, and I walk by rule; when I threatned Nineveh, the King went from his throne and went in sackcloth and ashes, and they cryed mightily unto me, and doe you thinke if you doe not cry mightily that I will returne in mercy to you? oh sayes God I have given you more then Nineveh, you know more and you must doe more, they cryed mightily, and shall not you cry mightily? we must pray more then ordinary, so did Moses, and for motives to it: 1. It is all that some of you can doe, you cannot help otherwayes by building God an house, lending money, &c. but you may pray. 2. If you be idle you will envy those that do pray; for it is a sure rule, those that stand by will envy the workmen, and what that will do, you may in Cain to Abel, when his sacrifice was rejected. 3. The scales may seem to hang even, it may be your grain of prayer, may turn them to mercy. 4. The Lord seems to be going, he is rising; when the Judge sits still, the malefactor does not lift up his voice and cry after him; but when the malefactor is condemned, and the Judge riseth and goes off the bench, then the poore malefactor lifteth up his voice, and cries, good my Lord, good my Lord. So when God is rising and going off the bench, shall not men cry, and cry mightily unto him, pray, and pray mightily unto him? Beloved, the Lord seems to be going off the bench, oh you that never prayed, now pray; you that have despised prayer, and praying meetings, now pray; you that have a heart to pray, pray now, & cry mightily unto the Lord your God.