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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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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, 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.
4. And in case that any sensible dispensation fall upon you, either by affliction or enjoyment, let your eye affect your heart; affections are sensible movings of the so I, doth the Lord therefore speak unto your soul by afflictions or Sacraments, he sure that you improve these sensible dispensations to the working up of your affections unto things above.
5. And be much in meditation, for as reading and hearing do beget knowledge, so meditation doth beget affections; either therefore you are in company, or you are alone; if you be in company mutual Exhortation will quicken your affections unto what is good; if ye be alone, then sit and meditate on the things that you have heard, or read, or seen, or done, and thus your affections will, and shall be raised unto things above.