Bridge's remains, being VIII sermons

Name: Bridge's remains, being VIII sermons
Author: William Bridge

Bridge's remains, being VIII sermons ... by that learned and judicious divine, Mr. William Bridge ...

William Bridge 1600?–1670London : Printed and are to be sold by John Hancock Senior and Junior ..., 1673

[16], 204 p. : port. · 61k words · Wing B4459 · ESTC R18600

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Sermons › Sermon 2: AFFECTIONS Rightly Placed.

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[ Earlier:145–160 of 523

:145p. 39¶3

3. And if your affections be not set on things above, what shall relieve you in the day of your distress? Look what you most affect while you are well,¹ that must be your relief when you are sick; can you relieve your selves with the things here below, when you are sick or count to dye? But if you now set your affections on things above, then they will relieve you in the day of your distress.

3. And if your affections be not set on things above, what shall relieve you in the day of your distress? Look what you most affect while you are well,¹ that must be your relief when you are sick; can you relieve your selves with the things here below, when you are sick or count to dye? But if you now set your affe••ions on things above, then they will relieve you in the day of your distress.

1Terrena nec plen•tudinem fe•re p•ssunt cont•nen•i, nec fulcimentum in•itenti, nec fructum laboranti. Parisiens.

:146p. 39–40¶4

4. Then also you shall neither lose your affection nor the thing affected: if you set your affections on things that are below, you shall both loose the thing affected, and your affections too. Witness the case of Jonah's Gourd. Now our affections are precious things, too good to be spilt and lost; lost they will be,¹

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