A77366:93
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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Hence we may all see and know what is the work of the1 times, even to measure the Temple. Now for a long while we have had experience of the first Vision, and we have felt the horns; the rising of the carpenters we have seen also: And who may not say, I have lift up mine eyes, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand? Blessed be God that we have lived to see this day, to see a man stand with a measuring line in his hand in England. And who ever you are that hear me this day, you are either such as have this measuring line in your hands, or else such as are to be measured.
Hence we may all see and know what is the work of the1 times, even to measure the Temple. Now for a long while we have had experience of the first Vision, and we have felt the hornes; the rising of the carpenters we have seen also: And who may not say, I have lift up mine eyes, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand? Blessed be God that we have lived to see this day, to see a man stand with a measuring line in his hand in England. And who ever you are that heare me this day, you are either such as have this measuring line in your hands, or else such as are to be measured.
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If you have the measuring line in your hands, then remember §1this Doctrine, the first Proposition, Stones of Reformation are to be laid with most exactness. Herein if you be exact, you shall be like unto Jesus Christ, who (as Salmeron observeth) when he came to purge the Temple, did not only admonish, chide, reprove the money-changers, or whip them away, but did overthrow their very Tables, Ne impium opus facile repeterent, Lest they should recover their trade