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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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2. If mens affections were thus set on things above, then they always carry these things about with them in their minds and thoughts; look what a man hath set his affections upon, that he carries up and down with him, wherever he goes still he is ⟨p. 36⟩thinking of it, and he cannot rid his heart of it; for his affections are set thereupon; but now men do not carry spiritual things about with them, they are not always thinking and minding of them wherever they come. Why! But because their affections are not truly set on them.
2. If mens affections were thus set on things above, then they always carry these things about with them in their minds and thoughts; look what a man hath set his affections upon, that he carries up and down with him, whereever he goes still he is ⟨p. 36⟩thinking of it, and he cannot rid his heart of it; for his affections are set thereupon; but now men do not carry spiritual things about with them, they are not always thinking and minding of them wherever they come. Why! But because their affections are not truly set on them.
3ly. If your affection were thus set upon heavenly and and spiritual things, then they would seek them in the first place: In the first of their age and time, in the first of their day and morning, in the first of their competition. If a man have a mind to a Journey, and his heart and affections be set upon it, he will be early up in the morning to go that Journey, or if he have any business to do that he hath set •is heart upon, he will do it before any other: and •o, if our affections be set on heavenly things, then we will mind them in the first place; but now men do not seek the Kingdom of God, and his Righteousness in the first place, but in the last place. Why! Because their affections are not truly set on things that are above.