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A77362	Christs coming opened in a sermon before the honourable house of commons in Margaret's Westminster, May 17, 1648 being the day appointed for Thanksgiving for the great Victory in Wales / by William Bridge ...	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.	1648 (1648)	Wing B4451; Thomason E471_3	19,393	30

Christs coming Opened in a SERMON Before the HONOURABLE HOUSE OF Commons IN MARGARETS WESTMINSTER MAY 17. 1648. Being the day appointed for Thanksgiving for the great Victory in WALES By WILLIAM BRIDGE Preacher of the Word of God at Yarmouth London Printed for Peter Cole at the Signe of the Printing-Presse in Cornhill at the Royall Exchange 1648. To the Honorable House of COMMONS In PARLIAMENT Assembled at WESTMINSTER ACcording to your command I have presented these notes to your view somewhat concerning the Kingdome and coming of Christ an Argument as unwelcome to some as welcome to others Kings Princes and Rulers sometimes startle at it but they need not for Christ meanes them no hurt Quicquid Christo datur abundantiùs redditur if they will throw down their Crowns at his feet he will set their Crowns on their heads and his own too Timuisti perdere terram The Jewes feared and refused to receive Christ and his Kingdome Perdidisti Deum timuisti ne tollerent gentem sustulerūt Deum quia tenere voluisti tenendo malè amisisti sine terrâ remansisti sine Deo Augustin in Joan. 11.48 Tract least they should lose their owne Kingdome and thereby they lost both their God and their Kingdome as Austin observes But who ever lost his Scepter by submitting unto Christs Scepter I may say truly Potestas Christi is rather Cumulativa then Privativa In helping Christ to his Throne you shall helpe your selves to your honours and greatnesse A liquis dicitur alio adjuvari duplicitèr vel propter additionem novae virtutis sic infirmi est sic Deo non competir vel per executionem prioris in quantum aliquis per alium exequitur ●uam ordinationē sic Deus per nos ●djuva●r Thom. ●●in I will not say that Christ hath need of you he hath no need of us But if that of the Schooles be true viz. that one is helped by another either by addition of new strength and vertue or by the exercise of what was formerly given then Jesus Christ may in some sense and that according to Scripture Phrase Judges 5.23 be said to be helped by you Great confedracies will be raised against him when he comes to his Kingdome Ps 2.1 2. But God who sits in Heaven laughs at those combinations v. 4. and in spite of them will set his King upon his holy hill of Zion v. 6. And to him that overcometh will I give to fit downe with me in my Throne sayeth our Saviour even as I have overcome and sit with my Father in his Throne Rev. 3.21 Wherefore most Honourable be not overcome with evill be not overcome with difficulties with oppositions or combinations of men but overcome evill with good and do what in you lies to bring this blessed King Jesus unto his Thron and Inheritance that as al the earth in due time shall so England in speciall manner may become the Kingdom of our Lord Christ and we may all say the Lord God omnipotent reigneth amongst us I could not long deliberate in so short a time what part of Gods Word I should preach to you but knowing the trouble of these times and that the more you spend your thoughts on Christs coming and Kingdome the more your hearts will be upheld in the times of your troubles I chose rather to preach on this Argument which I here now present beseech the Lord to blesse it to you and you to this Kingdome onely be strong and be of good courage feare not neither be dismayed and the Lord your God will be with you as he hath beene formerly which shall be the prayer of Your humble Servant in the Gospel of Jesus Christ WILL. BRIDGE CHRISTS COMING Is At OUR MIDNIGHT Mat. 25. vers 6. And at midnight there was a cry made Behold the Bridegroome cometh IN this parable ye have the state and posture of the Church a little before and at the coming of Jesus Christ Then shall the Kingdome of heaven be likened unto ten Virgins verse 1. Sometimes the Doctrine and grace of the Gospell is called the Kingdome of heaven The Kingdome of heaven is like to a graine of mustard-seed c. This cannot be meant here because in the Gospel there are not ten Virgins Sometimes the state of glory above is called the Kingdome of heaven That is not meant here because there are no foolish Virgins Sometimes the Church of Christ under the New Testament is called the Kingdome of heaven for there God appears manifests himselfe and it is heaven on earth and this is that which is here called the Kingdome of heaven Which Kingdome is described by the Governour King and Head thereof And by the subjects of that Kingdome The Subjects are described by their Agreement and Disagreement First they agree in this that they are all Virgins though some foolish yet Virgins not defiled with men or the pollutions of the world 't is possible a foolish and unsound heart may go thus farre in Religion to be free from the pollutions of the world yea through the knowledge of Christ sayes the Apostle Peter Secondly they agree in this that they have all their Lampes good and bad wise and foolish under Ordinances which are the Lampes whereby the golden oyle of the sanctuary is emptied into our hearts Thirdly they agree in this that they are all expectants wise and foolish wait the bridegroomes comming they all thinke to receive good and have a good day by the comming of Jesus Christ this is farre yet thus farre may a foolish Virgin go Fourthly they all agree in this that they had oyle in their lampes indeed verse the 3. it is said Ad nihilū valet quod non valet ad finem suum that the foolish Virgins took no oyle with them but verse the 8 they say Our lampes are gone out So that o●●e they had once but they had not enough and so none parts and gifts and common graces a man may have not only his lampe but some oyle in it for a time yet be a foolish Virgin Fifthly they agree in this that they keep Company have Communion and fellowship together in the Church yea so farre that the foolish are not knowne till Christs comming so smoothly may a foolish Virgin carry it yet remain foolish Sixthly They all agree in this also that they hold out their profession with lamps and waiting till the bridegroom comes So that possibly a man may be a Professor of the Gospel and beare up his Profession among the best even to the last yet be unfound at heart and a foolish Virgin Thus farre they agree But Secondly though these Virgins agree in many things yet they disagree in the point of wisedome for the wise got so much oyle as did serve till the last the foolish not so there was defectus olei verse 8. Secondly you have here the description of the King Governour and Head of this Kingdome

is there no act of mercy to be showne none of Christs friends to be relieved shall we make no progresse shall we stand still doe nothing as men in a maze shall we make no improvement of this deliverance and victory why should we not all sit down under our relations and say How shall I make improvement of this mercy what shall I do now for God and Christ that I did not before Is there nothing in your hand what No present to be given to Christ have we nothing at all then let us bring the sence of our own Nothing for the more humble ye are after victories the more thankfull for victories And if ye have no present in your hand this day to bring unto God for this victory Imago Caesar is reddatur Caesari imago Dei reddatur Deo August yet bring the victory it selfe and give it to God Ye give to Cesar the things that are Cesars why because his image is upon them and hath not this victory much of the image of God upon it When David was delivered from his enemies we reade in the 116. Psalme that he checks himselfe for his former unbeliefe I said in my haste c. and gathers up himself into God againe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In ingenu is Ar. Motan sic Tarnov in Psalm passion Returne unto thy rest O my soule When delivered from his enemies as we reade in the 118. Psalme he sounds a retrate from man O my soule trust not in Princes not in man nor in the sons of men trust not in Princes The word in the Hebrew is Ingenuous men for Princes should be ingenuous and if any men are to be trusted to they are ingenuous men but being delivered from men he retreates from men and sayes O my soule trust not in men nor in the sons of men not in Princes not in ingenuous men Yea and in that Psalme he cals upon others also for to praise the Lord and so let us do in his words O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good for his mercy endures for ever He stilleth the rage of the sea and the tumults of the people for his mercy endures for ever Who hath owned your cause again and your forces again for his mercy endures for ever who hath remembred you in your low condition for his mercy endures for ever and hath visited us with his love at midnight for his mercy endures for ever O give thanks unto the God of Gods for his mercy endures for ever Praise the Lord. If Christ come at midnight Applic. 2. then me thinkes his personall coming is not farre off I cannot say it is midnight in that respect but surely it is very late it is very darke and it hath been darke a great while We reade of two sorts of signes which go before the coming of Jesus Christ Some that are more remote and transient some that are more immediate and just at his coming Those that are more immediate and just at his coming ye reade of in the 24. of Matth. vers 29 30. Immediately after the tribulation of those dayes shall the sunne be darkened and the moone shall not give her light and the starres shall fall from Heaven and the powers of the Heavens shall be shaken and then shall appear the signe of the Sonne of man in Heaven and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourne and they shall see the Sonne of man coming in the clouds of Heaven with power and great glory These are yet to come But those that are more remote all seeme to be past already Before the coming of Christ sayes the Apostle the man of sin shall be revealed that is past Before the coming of Christ there shall false Prophets arise and say I am Christ and another I am Christ that is past Before the personall coming of Christ there shall be warres and rumours of warres this is past And before that day there shall be great divisions even in the matter of Religion one saying Loe here is Christ and another Loe there is Christ this is already And immediately before and at his coming men shall be smiting their fellow servants eating and drinking with the drunken this is already The wise and the foolish Virgins shall be all asleepe and was there ever a time when both wise and foolish were more asleepe then now when men set themselves to sleepe they draw their curtaines put out their lights and will have no more light come in so now When men are asleepe their senses are bound up that were open before they see not heare not taste not smell not their senses are lock't up Sleep is Ligatio sensuum And was there ever time when mens senses were more bound up that were formerly exercised then now are there not some that would pray and heare and reade that will not now who have now throwne off all duties ordinances and meanes Oh! what sleeping is here was there ever such sleeping among professors as now there is if ever wise and foolish virgins were afleepe they seeme to be in our dayes and shall we sleep also will ye not rather watch and pray watch and pray pray and watch and what I say to one I say to all watch and pray least ye enter into temptation Take but two or three wakening observations from this Parable First If ye looke into this parable ye may observe a most desperate sleepe is to come upon all prosessors immediately before the coming the great coming of Christ I call that desperate sleepe which is universall this Parable fals upon the Churches Then shall the Kingdome of Heaven not the Kingdome of the world be like to ten Virgins and those ten shall be all asleepe good and bad And sayes our Saviour in another place Neverthelesse when the son of man comes shall he find Faith on earth Againe I call that a desperate sleepe which shall be in the face of light It s an hard thing to sleepe whilst a candle is held unto ones eyes and in the time before Christ comes much light and truth shall breake out as Antichristian errour goes off and yet even then good and bad shall fall asleepe I call that desperate againe which shall be in the midst of trouble It s an hard thing for a man to sleepe when he is pincht and stricken in the times before Christ and when he comes men shall be smiting their fellow servants and yet even the smitten shall be asleepe Oh! what desperate sleeping times shall the latter times be have we not all cause then for to watch and pray Againe secondly If ye looke into this Scripture or Parable ye find that those who fall asleepe immediately before the coming of Christ shall never wake again till Christ come And they all slept sayes the text of the ten Virgins and waked not till the Bridegroome came Now if a man be very sleepy and you come to him and say Sir take heed