A77366:57
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.…
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.
London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1643
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.
5. Hereby the children of God receive a fuller and clearer testimony of their own graces. When the world frowns most, God smiles most upon them. When the enemy gives the loudest testimony of their hypocrisy, God from heaven doth give the highest testimony of their sincerity to their bosoms.
5. Hereby the children of God receive a fuller and clearer testimony of their own graces. When the world frowns most, God smiles most upon them. When the enemie gives the loudest testimonie of their hypocrisie, God from heaven doth give the highest testimony of their sincerity to their bosomes.
6. Hereby the enemies themselves are more convinced. Some men snore so loud in their sleep, that they awake themselves with their own snortings; and some mens sins are so loud and unreasonable, that they convince themselves and others by their own unreasonable dealing with the people of God. Master Fox tells of one in Queen Mary's time, that had so basely and maliciously used that servant of God James Abbes, that when that good man James Abbes was dead, the remembrance of this Martyrs patience and his own unreasonableness, made the Persecutor cry out and say, James Abbes is saved, and I am damned, and so he went wringing his hands to his grave, crying, James Abbes is saved and I am damned, James Abbes is saved and I am damned. It is recorded also of one Calocerius, that when he saw the malignancy of the enemies, and patience of the Martyrs, he cried out and said, Of a truth great is the God of the Christians. And what1 can a Christian desire more? Is not Gods truth better then my house?
6. Hereby the enemies themselves are more convinced. Some men snore so loud in their sleep, that they awake themselves with their owne snortings; and some mens sinnes are so loud and unreasonable, that they convince themselves and others by their owne unreasonable dealing with the people of God. Master Fox tels of one in Queene Maries time, that had so basely and maliciously used that srvant of God Iames Abbes, that when that good man Iames Abbes was dead, the remembrance of this Martyrs patience and his owne unreasonablenesse, made the Persecutor cry out and say, Iames Abbes is saved, and I am damned, and so he went wringing his hands to his grave, crying, Iames Abbes is saved and I am damned, Iames Abbes is saved and I am damned. It is recorded also of one Calocerius, that when he saw the malignancy of the enemies, and patience of the Martyrs, he cryed out and said, Of a truth great is the God of the Christians. And what