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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Sermons › Sermon 1: OF MANS BLESSEDNESS, OR THE BLESSED MAN.
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'Tis true indeed, there is an happiness to be obtained (saith he) and ordinarily men do seek this happiness in the Crowd and Throng of the Creatures: But as for me, I do not place my happiness there, but in the clear enjoyment of God; whatever ⟨p. 3⟩therefore men say or do, in reference to their happiness; this is that I say, Lord lift thou up the light of thy Countenance upon me. So that though men do ordinarily seek after something that may make them happy in the World. Yet a good and gracious man doth account himself fully happy in the enjoyment of God, and the light of his Countenance, for the opening and prosecuting whereof.
'Tis true indeed, there is an happiness to be obtained (saith he) and ordinarily men do seek this happiness in the Crowd and Throng of the Creatures: But as for me, I do not place my happiness there, but in the clear enjoyment of God; whatever ⟨p. 3⟩therefore men say or do, in reference to their happiness; this is that I say, Lord lift thou up the light of thy Countenance upon me. So that though men do ordinarily seek after something that may make them happy in the World. Yet a good and gracious man doth account himself fully happy in the enjoyment of God, and the light of his Countenance, for the opening and prosecuting wherof.
1. I shall labour to show you that there is a disposition in men, to seek after something that may make them happy.
1. I shall labour to shew you that there is a disposition in men, to seek after something that may make them happy.