A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at their public fast, Novemb.…A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at their publique fast, Novemb.…

Name: A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at their publique fast, Novemb.…
Author: William Bridge

A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at their public fast, Novemb. 29. 1643. By William Bridge, sometimes fellow of Emanuel College in Cambridge, now preacher of Gods Word at Yarmouth.A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at their publique fast, Novemb. 29. 1643. By VVilliam Bridge, sometimes fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge, now preacher of Gods Word at Yarmouth.

William Bridge 1600?–1670London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1643

[8], 32 p. · 12k words · Wing B4465 · ESTC R13662

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Dedication: TO THE HONOURABLE THE KNIGHTS, Citizens, and Burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament.Dedication: TO THE HONORABLE THE KNIGHTS, Citizens, and Burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament.

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And in the throng of all your discouragements, be pleased also to remember how good, how honourable, how successful your service is and will be.

And in the throng of all your discouragements, be pleased also to remember how good, how honourable, how successefull your service is and will be.

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Tis good, first, in regard of the State; for you are now in travail for your Countries liberty, which though it may stick some time in the birth, and a dragon stand before you to devour it before it is borne, yet in due time it shall be brought forth, and we shall not only be liberati, but ¹liberi. The Hebrews have a Proverb which they have borrowed of Solomon, That Whoso breaketh down the •edge, shall be bitten with serpents. The hedges of the State or Church are the Laws, (as Drusius interprets it) or the Ordinances thereof: Those enemies of yours or ours, that have or would tread down our hedges even to the ground, shall not ever go unpunished. When the hedge is lowest, the serpent is nearest.

Tis good, first, in regard of the State; for you are now in travail for your Countries liberty, which though it may stick some time in the birth, and a dragon stand before you to devoure it before it is borne, yet in due time it shal be brought forth, and we shall not onely be liberati, but ¹liberi. The Hebrews have a Proverb which they have borrowed of Solomon, That Whoso breaketh down the •edge, shall be bitten with serpents. The hedges of the State or Church are the Laws, (as Drusius interprets it) or the Ordinances thereof: Those enemies of yours or ours, that have or would tread down our hedges even to the ground, shall not ever goe unpunished. When the hedge is lowest, the serpent is nearest.

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The book

Title as printed

Author

William Bridge 1600?–1670

Place

London

Bookseller

R. Dawlman

Year

1643

Size

[8], 32 p.

Words

12,432

Catalogue

Wing B4465 · ESTC R13662

Text

EEBO-TCP A77366

Passages

108

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Title page

A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at their public fast, Novemb.…A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at their publique fast, Novemb.…

Die Mercurii 29. November. 1643.

A SERMON Preached at the Late Fast, before the Honourable House of COMMONS.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Die Mercurii 29. November. 1643.

A SERMON Preached at the Late Fast, before the Honourable House of COMMONS.

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