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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
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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.
8. Hereby also the servants of God may see and know by experience, that it is better to serve God then men. When1 we worship God after and for the precepts of men, we do rather worship men then God, and serve them then him; And when his servants do so, th•n God suffers men to rise up against them, that they may learn in a smarting way, as well as they have done in a sinning way, what it is to serve men. This cause you have expressed, 2 Chron. 12. 7, 8. And when the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves, therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out by the hand of Shishak; Nevertheless they shall be his servants, that they may know my service and the service of the Kingdoms of the Countries.
8. Hereby also the servants of God may see and know by experience, that it is better to serve God then men. When1 we worship God after and for the precepts of men, we doe rather worship men then God, and serve them then him; And when his servants do so, th•n God suffers men to rise up against them, that they may learne in a smarting way, as wel as they have done in a sinning way, what it is to serve men. This cause you have expressed, 2 Chron. 12. 7, 8. And when the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves, therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out by the hand of Shishak; Neverthelesse they shall be his servants, that they may know my service and the service of the Kingdomes of the Countries.
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