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I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…
I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet. I. 19 : II. Christ in travel ... in three sermons on Isai. 53. 11 : III. A lifting up for the down-cast ... delivered in thirteen sermons on Psal. 42, 11 : four several sermons ... / preached by William Bridge ...
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1656
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And the more that any Service, Work, or Duty, is oppressed with difficulty, the more assistance may you expect from God; his assistance, help, and income, is given out much, according to the difficulties which we do meet withal. If the difficulties be small, then his assistance is less; if the difficulties be great, then is his assistance greater. Now what matter what the difficulties are, so long as my assistance is suitable? This is Gods way with his, he doth proportion his assistance unto our impediments: and therefore if your difficulties be great, and more than ordinary, then may you look for great, and more than ordinary assistance: O! what a Comfort is this!
And the more that any Service, Work, or Dutie, is oppressed with difficultie, the more assistance may you expect from God; his assistance, help, and income, is given out much, according to the difficulties which we do meet withal. If the difficulties be smal, then his assistance is less; if the difficulties be great, then is his assistance greater. Now what matter what the difficulties are, so long as my assistance is suitable? This is Gods way with his, he doth proportion his assistance unto our impediments: and therefore if your difficulties be great, and more than ordinary, then may you look for great, and more than ordinary assistance: O! what a Comfort is this!
Answ. 3 Thirdly: In case that you work, and serve, and toil, and do take nothing, having no success, or not so comfortable as you desire; Then,
Consider this, That the less success you have, the more are you free from envy: It's an hard thing for a man that works not, not to envy him that works; and for him that hath no success, not to envy him that hath great success: of all men in the world, the successful man is the most envied. The Heathens had this Notion amongst them, which they applied to their gods; and therefore when Polycrates, King, or rather Tyrant of Samos, prospered so abundantly in all that he undertook, Amasis the King of Egypt, his Friend, and Confederate, wrote thus to him: