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Christs coming opened in a sermon before the honourable house of commons in Margaret's…
Christs coming opened in a sermon before the honourable house of commons in Margaret's Westminster, May 17, 1648 being the day appointed for Thanksgiving for the great Victory in Wales / by William Bridge ...
London: printed for Peter Cole, 1648
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Christ shall come in the clouds again, when the poor Jews shall see him, and those which are called Forsaken, 1shall be called Beloved the Kings bride, when the fullness of the Gentiles shall be come in, when Christ himself shall set up his Kingdom in the world, his Regnum potentiae, not patientiae: when he shall rule from sea to sea, when he shall come not riding upon an asses colt, but in the clouds, with thousands of Angels ministering unto him. When foolish virgins shall be shut out from his glory, and the wise professor taken in. And in the mean while, though our Lord and Saviour Christ seem to forsake the Churches for the present, yet he will come again unto them with delivering and conquering mercy: Behold, I come quickly, hold fast that which thou hast. Revel. 3.
Christ shall come in the cloudes again, when the poor Jewes shall see him, and those which are called Forsaken, 1shall be called Beloved the Kings bride, when the fulnesse of the Gentiles shall be come in, when Christ himself shall set up his Kingdome in the world, his Regnum potentiae, not patientiae: when he shall rule from sea to sea, when he shall come not riding upon an asses colt, but in the cloudes, with thousands of Angels ministring unto him. When foolish virgins shall be shut out from his glory, and the wise professor taken in. And in the meane while, though our Lord and Saviour Christ seeme to forsake the Churches for the present, yet he will come againe unto them with delivering and conquering mercy: Behold, I come quickly, hold fast that which thou hast. Revel. 3.
- 1Read ch. 13 of the 2. of Esdras, which though it be Apocrypha and the lowest of Apocrypha, being written in Latin, yet of great antiquity, cited by Cyprian, Jerome, Austin, Cl mens Alexandrinus, and divers others.Reade ch. 13 of the 2. of Esdras, which though it be Apocrypha and the lowest of Apocrypha, being written in Latin, yet of great antiquity, cited by Cyprian, Jerome, Austin, Cle mens Alexandrinus, and divers others.