A29369:155
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. Then you must get knowledge of these things that are above, for ignoti nullam cupido, there is no desire of unknown things, nor affections to them; some desire knowledge and not affections, some desire affections and do not labour after knowledge. Give me knowledge hearted with affections, and affections headed with knowledge; for as knowledge without affections make wicked men secure, so affections without knowledge make Godly men scrupulous. Study therefore to know more, and that knowledge ⟨p. 42⟩shall be a light and lantern to the feet of your affectionr.
2. Then you must get knowledge of these things that are above, for ignoti nullam cupido, there is no desire of unknown things, nor affections to them; some desire knowledge and not affections, some desire affections and do not labour after knowledge. Give me knowledge hearted with affections, and affections headed with knowledge; for as knowledge without affections make wicked men secure, so affections without knowledge make Godly men scrupulous. Study therefore to know more, and that knowledge ⟨p. 42⟩shall be a light and lanthorn to the feet of your affectionr.
3. If you would draw up your affections unto things above, then put your self under the most wooing discoveries of Gospel love. Wooings toll out affections, Christ woos in the Gospel, there doth the spirit also breath: and these motions of the soul can never be stirred up but by the moving of the spirit on the heart, Ezek. 1.12. The living creatures went every one straight forward, whether the spirit was to go. Now the spirit moves in the wooing dispensations of the Gospel, there then place your selves and give up your hearts unto these wooings.
3. If you would draw up your affections unto things above, then put your self under the most wooing discoveries of Gospel love. Wooings towle out affections, Christ wooes in the Gospel, there doth the spirit also breath: and these motions of the soul can never be stirred up but by the moveing of the spirit on the heart,