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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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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 ⟨p. 37⟩be truly set on things above, he loves to be speaking of them; but now though men say they affect the best things, yet they are not usually speaking of them Why! But because their affections are not in truth set on them.
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, bubling 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 womans 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 ⟨p. 37⟩be truly set on things above, he loves to be speaking of them; but now though men say they affect the best things, yet they are not usually speaking of them Why! But because their affections are not in truth set on them.
5. •ook what a man is deeply affected with, that that he is most indulgent to and tender of, he could not have a cold wind for to breath upon it. Affections blind the judgment. Perit judicium cum res transit in affectum. Great affections take away the very judgment, infirmities are no infirmities to affection, love will kiss the warts of the thing affected; oh its exceeding tender of the thing affected. But now men are not so tender of the name of God, and spiritual things. Why! But because their affections are not set in truth upon things above.