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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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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.
3ly. If your affe••ion 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.
4. If mens affections were thus truly set on things above, then they would be speaking of them, and love to hear others speaking of them. I will speak of things concerning the King, saith David in the 45th. Psalm; for my heart is inditing, boiling, bubbling up a good matter. And ye see this by experience, that a man or woman loves to speak of what they affect. If a mans heart be set on the World, and the things thereof, he loves to be speaking of them; if a woman's affections be set on fine loths and fashions, she loves to be speaking of them, and to hear others speaking of them; for if ones affections