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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.
It is the ground of all our Fruitfulness: Ye know how it is with a Tree or Plant, th•ugh in it self it be never so good, yet if it be not settled in the Earth, it bringeth forth no Fruit: If the Plant be good, and the Soil good, it may bring forth good Fruit; but if you be always removing it from one place to another, it cannot bring forth Fruit. And what is the reason that many are so unfruitful in their lives, but because they are so unsettled in their hearts and Judgments? The Tree that is planted by the Waters side, brings forth Fruit in its season, Psal. 1. But as for the Ungodly, it is not so with them, They are as the Chaff, that brings forth no Fruit, whom the wind drives to and fro. And the Truth is, an unsettled man, is neither fit to receive good, nor to ⟨p. 432⟩do good. So long as the Vessel is moved up and down, ye cannot pour the Liquor into it; and who can write exactly when his arm is jogged? Can any man walk exactly in a crowd, which one while carrieth him this way, and another while that way? No surely: Neither can an unsettled, unestablished heart walk exactly with the Lord his God.
It is the ground of all our Fruitfulness: Ye know how it is with a Tree or Plant, th•ugh in it self it be never so good, yet if it be not setled in the Earth, it bringeth forth no Fruit: If the Plant be good, and the Soyl good, it may bring forth good Fruit; but if you be alwaies removing it from one place to another, it cannot bring forth Fruit. And what is the reason that many are so unfruitful in their lives, but because they are so unsetled in their hearts and Judgments? The Tree that is planted by the Waters side, brings forth Fruit in its season, Psal. 1. But as for the Ungodly, it is not so with them, They are as the Chaff, that brings forth no Fruit, whom the wind drives to and fro. And the Truth is, an unsetled man, is neither fit to receive good, nor to ⟨p. 432⟩do good. So long as the Vessel is moved up and down, ye cannot pour the Liquor into it; and who can write exactly when his arm is jogged? Can any man walk exactly in a crowd, which one while carrieth him this way, and anoher while that way? No surely: Neither can an unsetled, unestablished heart walk exactly with the Lord his God.