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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.
Will you say, Oh but when I do stir up my self to behold things as they are, I cannot see four for four, a proportionable strength on the Churches side raised up against the enemies? Well, but yet you may see some strength in every place, where ever there is any opposition made by enemies, some there are in the same place that God hath raised up to resist them. And the Text is not, that God will raise up strong gigantean carpenters, but carpenters, four carpenters, some or other that shall do the work of God, though they be never so weak. In that Mic. 5. where the promise is to raise up seven shepherds, and eight principal men, he saith, ver. 7. The remnant of Jacob shall be as the dew that waiteth not for the sons of men. Mark that word, that waiteth not for the sons of men. When Sisera and all his host were discomfited, what were the carpenters? were not Deborah and Jael with her hammer amongst them? and saith the Text, So let all thine enemies perish; it is not only a prayer, but a prophecy.
Will you say, Oh but when I do stir up my selfe to behold things as they are, I cannot see foure for foure, a proportionable strength on the Churches side raised up against the enemies? Well, but yet you may see some strength in every place, where ever there is any opposition made by enemies, some there are in the same place that God hath raised up to resist them. And the Text is not, that God will raise up strong gigantean carpenters, but carpenters, foure carpenters, some or other that shall doe the work of God, though they be never so weak. In that Mic. 5. where the promise is to raise up seven shepherds, and eight principall men, he saith, ver. 7. The remnant of Iacob shall be as the dew that waiteth not for the sons of men. Mark that word, that waiteth not for the sons of men. When Sisera and all his host were discomfited, what were the carpenters? were not Deborah and Iael with her hammer amongst them? and saith the Text, So let all thine enemies perish; it is not onely a prayer, but a prophecie.