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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.
Secondly: Take heed of a worldly, fleshly mind; fleshly sins do exceedingly blind the mind from the things of God;1 and a worldly mind cannot savour them. Ye see how it is in the Eclipse of the Moon, when the Earth comes between the Sun and the Moon, then the Moon is eclipsed, because the Earth keeps the light of the Sun from it. So if the Earth, and the World come between you, and the Truth, there will be an eclipse, and darkness upon all your Soul: Then shall ye know (saith our Saviour) of my Doctrine, whether it be of God, if ye do what I command you. Those that will not do what they know, shall not know what to do.
Secondly: Take heed of a worldly, fleshly mind; fleshly sins do exceedingly blind the mind from the things of God;1 and a worldly mind cannot savor them. Ye see how it is in the Eclipse of the Moon, when the Earth comes between the Sun and the Moon, then the Moon is eclipsed, because the Earth keeps the light of the Sun from it. So if the Earth, and the World come between you, and the Truth, there wil be an eclipse, and darkness upon al your Soul: Then shall ye know (saith our Savior) of my Doctrine, whether it be of God, if ye do what I command you. Those that wil not do what they know, shal not know what to do.
- 1Perfectio intellectualis operationis in homine consistit in quadam abstraction à sensibilium phantasmatibus, et ideo quando intellectus hominis magis fuerit liber ab Eujusmodi phantasmat. tanto potius considerare intelligibilia poterit. Ergo. Hebitudo sensus circa intelligentiam oritur ex gula caecitas menti••ex luxuria. Aquin. 22. Q. 15. A. 3. Cum non faciunt quae intelligunt, non intelligent quae faciunt.Perfectio intellectualis operationis in homine consistit in quadam abstractione à sensibilium phantasmatibus, et ideo quando intellectus hominis magis fuerit liber ab Eujusmodi phantasmat. tanto potius considerare intelligibilia poterit. Ergo. Hebitudo sensus circa intelligentiam oritur ex gula caecitas menti••ex luxuria. Aquin. 22. Q. 15. A. 3. Cum non faciunt quae intelligunt, non intelligent quae faciunt.