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A29372 Seasonable truths in evil-times in several sermons / lately preached in and about London by Willam Bridge, late preacher of the word of God at Yarmouth. Bridge, William, 1600?-1670. 1668 (1668) Wing B4463; ESTC R28532 153,225 263

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Daughter of Ely Ickabod Ickabod The Ark of the Lord is taken Her Husband was k●lled and she falls in Travel 1 Sam. 4. 21. and being delivered she names the Child Ickabod saying the glory is departed from Israel because the Ark ●● God was taken and because of her Father in Law a●● her Husband and she said the glory is departed from Israel for the Ark of God is taken she names her Husbands death but once and her Fathers death but once but the Ark was taken twise for that she was most affected Is there any sorrow like unto my sorrow saith the Church why the waies to Zion mourn and are unfrequented Thus then the Saints and people of God will be affected when the Solemn Assembly doth lye under Reproach 2. This affection of theirs will continue with them and abide upon them they will not hang down their heads for a day and frolick it afterwards hang down their heads for a day in a Fast but as it is said of Ahab he walked heavily So they will walk Saith David in Psalm 42. My tears have been my meat day and night while they continually say unto me where is thy God When I remember these things I pour out my soul in me so you read it but it should be upon me I pour out my soul upon me as waters poured upon the ground For I had gone with the multitude I went with them to the house of God with the voice of joy and praise with a multitude that kept holy day My tears have been my meat day and night 't is not for a day and there 's an end but day and night This affection doth continue with them and abide upon them where ever they go they carry it as their burthen 3. Then also they will lay aside their Ornaments that they cannot rejoyce in their former comforts as they did before And the Lord said unto the Children of Israel that he would not go up with them I will send an Angel before you Exod. 33. and drive out the Cananite and the Amorite but saith he I will not go in the midst of thee then the children of Israel stript themselves of their Ornaments When the people heard these evil tydings they mourned and no man did put on his Ornaments For the Lord said unto Moses say unto the Children of Israel ye are a stiffe necked pe●ple I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment and consume thee Therefore now put off thine Ornaments from thee that I may know what to do unto thee And the Children of Israel stript themselves of their Ornaments by the Mount Horeb And Moses took the Tabernacle and pitched it without the Camp afar ●ff from the Camp and called it the Tabernacle of the Congregation And it came to passe that every one which sought the Lord went out unto the Tabernacle of the Congregation which was without the Camp The presence of the Lord was removed They were fain to go out unto the Tabernacle The presence of God was departed and God said he would not go with them and though he had promised them an Angel yet they fall a crying and weeping O the Presence of the Lord with us else we have no comfort and then they laid by their Ornaments So that look when the Solemn Assembly lies under Reproach then the Presence of the Lord is gon from the Solemn Assembly and therefore the Saints and Servants of God will and must lay by their Ornaments 4. The Saints and People of God will search into their own waies and turn from the evil of those waies that have had a hand in bringing in this reproach upon the Solemn Assembly They will search and turn In vain is the sense when there is no emendation Is it such a day as I have chosen for a man to hang down his head No To relieve the oppressed to take off the yokes and burthens Reformation But what is it a dull Reformation No but it is a Reformation lead on by prayer and fasting and it is such a prayer as is back'd with Reformation And thus the people of God are affected under the Reproach of the Solemn Assembly 3. But then secondly you will say What is there in this Reproach of the Solemn Assembly that the Saints and people of God should be so much affected with it What what not Only First The Lord himself is well pleased with and the Saints are well pleased in this sense in t●● Reproach of the Solemn Assembly God himself is well pleased with it The Sacrifices of G●d are a broken and a contrite heart An hard heart is Gods curse Lamentations 3. you read it thus Give them sorrow of heart thy curse unto them 'T is not sorrow of heart for that 's a blessing but obstinacy of heart an hard heart so the Margent but in the Hebrew give them a heart with a Shield upon it that may fense off the blow That when any thing is spoken they may fence it off give them a fending heart a hard heart a hard heart is Gods curse A tender and a soft heart bleeding over the miseries of the Church it is Gods Sacrifice God is well pleased And the Saints and people of God they are well pleased in this sense It is Recorded of Nazianzen that knowing there would be freedom from sin in Heaven he desired to dye But then remembring that there would be no mourning for sin in Heaven nor for the miseries of the Church he desired to live Chusing rather to mourn for sin and the miseries of the Church than to be freed from sin here was a Spirit 'T is said of the true Griever he grieves and he doth rejoyce in his grief A man that doth truely grieve he doth grieve and he doth rejoyce in his grief So that in this sense of the Reproach of the Solemn Assembly God himself is well pleased therewith and the Saints are well pleased therein 2. But Secondly Do you ask what there is in the Reproach of this Solemn Assembly that the Saints and People of God should be so much affected with it I Answer There is a darkness falls upon the greatest Organ of Light The greatest Organ of light is ecclipsed all ecclipsed and the greater Vessel or Organ of light is ecclipsed the more dreadful is the Ecclipse The Sun ecclipsed that great Organ of light it is more dreadful The great Organ of light for the world it is the Solemn Assembly Now when a Reproach falls upon the Solemn Assembly the greatest Vessel and Organ of light is darkned and this is dreadful to those that look upwards But Thirdly Then the Name of the Lord is dishonoured The Reproaches of them that Reproached thee have fallen upon me And so the other way The Reproaches of them that Reproach us and the Solemn Assemblies are fallen upon thee O Lord and upon thy Name There are three or four things that God doth much delight in in the world