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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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An w. That is well! But are you sure that you do so?
1; It is an hard and difficult thing thus to set our affections on things above: For he that doth truly set his affections on things above, hath his Sympathy and Antipathy changed; look what that is which before he had an Antipathy against, that he now hath a Sympathy with; and that which he had a Sympathy with, that he now hath an Antipathy against. Now is it not an hard thing to change our Antipathies into Sympathies, and our Sympathies into Antipathies? Suppose a man hath an Antipathy unto some Meats, as Cheese or the like; is it not an hard thing to love that most, which he had in Antipathy or natural hatred unto? Thus it is when the affections are taken off from things below, and placed on things above. Surely therefore it is a very hard thing to have our affections to be thus transplanted and altered.
2. It is one thing to affect the best things, and to have some affections to the better things; another thing to set our affections on things that are above: its said of Herod, that he heard John Baptist gladly: there he had some affections to the better things, yet his affections were not set on things above. The Stony ground in the Parable, receives the word with joy; there is some affections to the better things yet this is the not setting of the affections on things above plainly; yet its one thing to affect the best ⟨p. 35⟩things, and another thing to set our affections on things that are above. Yet,
2. It is one thing to affect the best things, and to have some affections to the better things; another thing to set our affections on things that are above: its said of Herod, that he heard John Baptist gladly: there he had some affections to the better things, yet his ffections were not set on things above. The Stony ground in the Parable, receives the word with joy; there is some affections to the better things yet this is the not setting of the affections on things above plainly; yet its one thing to affect the best