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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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Mistake me not, it is not in mine intention to call for blood. Answ. Oh that in this day of our humiliation and address•s to God, we could so touch the hem of Christs garment, that Englands bloody issue might be stanched I Be as mild as you can, so you be like unto Christ, who was both a Lamb and a Lion; a Lamb in his own cause, a Lion in Gods. Meekness and Justice may well stand together: Moses was the meekest man upon earth you know, yet when Israel had defiled themselves with Idols in the matter of the golden calf, he stood in the gate of the camp1 and said, Exod. 32. 27. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate through the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour. He doth not say, Slay every man his enemy, or every man his countryman, but every man his brother, and his companion, and his neighbour. And ver. 28. it is said. The children of Levi did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men; yet the Levites had their hand in Temple-work more then any other Tribe, and Moses had the honour to build the Tabernacle. You read also in Zech. 13. of a great and glorious Reformation, so high, so great, and so convincing, that the very Priests who were wont to go in rough garments to deceive the people, should throw away their Priest-coats, and say, ver. 5. I am no Prophet, I am an husbandman, for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth. As if they should say severally, Though I am able to read a Chapter, yet I am not fit to be a Minister, I have no learning, but in truth am more fit to go to the plough: Well, but now mark I pray how this great change and Reformation is ushered in and brought about, not without some kind of holy violence, for it is said, ver. 2. It shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of ⟨p. 19⟩hosts, that I will cut off the names of the Idols out of the land, and they shall be no more remembered; and also I will cause the Prophets and the unclean spirits to pass out of the land: And ver. 3. It s•all come to pass that whn any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth. And ver. 6. when any should ask him, What are those wounds in thy hands?