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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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Sermons › Sermon 5: THE CARNALITY OF Professors.Sermons › Sermon 5: THE CARNALITY OF Professours.
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Secondly, Yea, though you be a good man yet ⟨p. 127⟩if you be carnal, you do thereby make your self unfit both to do good, and receive good. Carnality makes you unfit to do good, it will hinder the vend of your commodities. I think sometimes, says Luther, to convert all the Congregation, but the Auditor comes and smells something of a man in what I say,1 and so he turns away, and no good is done. And in experience what good doth admonition do, when administered in passion. This Carnality is an hinderance to your doing good; and as it is an hinderance to your doing, so it is an hinderance to your receiving it. It stops your Ears and Eyes; your Ears from hearing the Word, and your Eyes from seeing into the dispensations of God. Yea,
Secondly, Yea, though you be a good man yet ⟨p. 127⟩if you be carnal, you do thereby make your self unfit both to do good, and receive good. Carnality makes you unfit to do good, it will hinder the vend of your commodities. I think sometimes, says Luther, to convert all the Congregation, but the Auditor comes and smells something of a man in what I say,1 and so he turns away, and no good is done. And in experience what good doth admonition do, when administred in passion. This Carnality is an hinderance to your doing good; and as it is an hinderance to your doing, so it is an hinderance to your receiving it. It stops your Ears and Eyes; your Ears from hearing the Word, and your Eyes from seeing into the dispensations of God. Yea,
- 1Sentit anima hominis verbum arte super se compositum esse, & stercore humano (ut apud Ezekielem est) opertum, humano affectu pollutum, ideo nauseat super illo, & potius irritatur quam convertitur. Luther loc. com. clas. 4. de minister. verbi.