"THis Chapter contains a Prophesie of the Captivity of Gods Church in Babylon; which is set down First, under the type of a Girdle, which is taken from the loins of the Prophet, and put into an hole of the Rock near Euphrates, which did lick the banks of Babel, which after a time was so marred, that it was good for so will I marre the glory, and the great pride of Jerusalem. When a people will not be vile in their own eyes, God hath a time to make them when they will not be the glory and praise of God, they shall be the filth and shame of the world. Secondly, under sundry the first is in these Verses; where note two 1. The similitude it self; wherein he compares them to bottles, wherein wine was wont to be which is set down In a plain affirmation of the thing, from Gods Command [Every bottle shall be filled with wine] this he was to preach, and testifie. From their ignorant and disdainful receiving of this message from God; q.d. who knows not that? what great matter is that? what do you publish and press us to believe that? we know that every bottle shall. Now the Lord had caught them,..."
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.
Language
English
Pages
15
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
February 25, 2015
Wine for Gospel wantons: or, Cautions against spirituall drunkenness. Being the brief notes of a sermon preached at Cambridge in New-England, upon...
"THis Chapter contains a Prophesie of the Captivity of Gods Church in Babylon; which is set down First, under the type of a Girdle, which is taken from the loins of the Prophet, and put into an hole of the Rock near Euphrates, which did lick the banks of Babel, which after a time was so marred, that it was good for so will I marre the glory, and the great pride of Jerusalem. When a people will not be vile in their own eyes, God hath a time to make them when they will not be the glory and praise of God, they shall be the filth and shame of the world. Secondly, under sundry the first is in these Verses; where note two 1. The similitude it self; wherein he compares them to bottles, wherein wine was wont to be which is set down In a plain affirmation of the thing, from Gods Command [Every bottle shall be filled with wine] this he was to preach, and testifie. From their ignorant and disdainful receiving of this message from God; q.d. who knows not that? what great matter is that? what do you publish and press us to believe that? we know that every bottle shall. Now the Lord had caught them,..."
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.