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Bridge's remains, being VIII sermons
Bridge's remains, being VIII sermons ... by that learned and judicious divine, Mr. William Bridge ...
London : Printed and are to be sold by John Hancock Senior and Junior ..., 1673
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Demonstration, 1. If you do not set your affections on Christ, and the things of Christ, you are no fit match for him; you will not be found marriageable unto the Lord Christ; that woman is not fit to be married to a man, whose affections are not drawn out, and knit to him; and if your affections be not drawn out to Christ, and the things of Christ, you are no fit match for Christ. Now we must all be espoused to Christ, and married to him, as the Church, so every believer is the true Spouse of Christ; but the Spouse of Christ ye cannot be, unless your affections be drawn out to him.
2ly. As you cannot be married to Christ unless your affections be set on him, and the things above; so you will never own him, unless your affections be set on him. 'Tis the duty of all the Saints, to own Christ, his ways, his truths, his ordinances; He that is ashamed of me before Men, him will I be ashamed off, before my Father which is in Heaven, saith Christ, Now look what that is which a man doth much affect, that he will own and not be ashamed of; but if a man doth not affect a thing, he will not own it, but will be ashamed of it; but we must own Christ ⟨p. 30⟩here, or he will not own us hereafter. Surely therefore it is very fit and necessary, that our affections be set on Christ, and the things above.
2ly. As you cannot be married to Christ unless your affections be set on him, and the things above; so you will never own him, unless your affections be set on him. 'Tis the duty of all the Saints, to own Christ, his ways, his truths, his ordinances; He that is ashamed of me before Men, him will I be ashamed off, before my Father which is in Heaven, saith Christ, Now look what that is which a man doth much affect, that he will own and not be ashamed of; but if a man doth not affect a thing, he will not own it, but will be ashamed of it; but we must own Christ ⟨p. 30⟩here, or he will not own us hereafter. Surely therefore it is very fit and necess•ry, that our affections be set on Christ, and the things above.