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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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3. In troublous times God is pleased to communicate Reas. 3 himself more freely to his people. God is not unto his in affliction as at other times: he is most sweet when the world is most bitter. It is with a Nation, Church• & people in their reformation, as with a person in his first conversion; because of those many temptations that a converting person is to conflict withal, God doth more abundantly reveal and communicate himself unto him at his first conversion; so with a reforming people, because of those many oppositions that they shall meet withal in that work, God doth then more then ⟨p. 24⟩ordinarily communicate himself unto them. Thus troublous times do bring forth light and truth. God loveth to have a sacrifice from the hands of the children of Abraham out of the thickets and briars. Opposition commendeth reformation, in troublous times there is much opposition, and therefore in those times reformation is very beautiful. The Doctrine is clear then, the application easy. Thus.
3. In troublous times God is pleased to communicate Reas. 3 himself more freely to his people. God is not unto his in affliction as at other times: he is most sweet when the world is most bitter. It is with a Nation, Church• & people in their reformation, as with a person in his first conversion; because of those many temptations that a converting person is to conflict withall, God doth more abundantly reveal and communicate himself unto him at his first conversion; so with a reforming people, because of those many oppositions that they shall meet withall in that work, God doth then more then ⟨p. 24⟩ordinarily communicate himself unto them. Thus troublous times do bring forth light and truth. God loveth to have a sacrifice from the hands of the children of Abraham out of the thickets and bryars. Opposition commendeth reformation, in troublous times there is much opposition, and therefore in those times reformation is very beautifull. The Doctrine is clear then, the application easie. Thus.