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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
SAINTS Should not be DISCOURAGED, Whatever their Condition be.
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.
Yea, not only so, but take things asunder, and consider things by pieces, one from another, abstracting the means from the end, and so the Saints may have a true and real reason for their discouragements, for every affliction is Grievous. If the husbandman look only upon the breaking up of his ground, without respect to the harvest, he may well be discouraged, but take both together, and so he will not: thus if the Saints consider their breakings apart from their harvest, they may see cause for their discouragements: but if they do consider their breaking up, and their harvest together, the means and the end together, I say take altogether, and then, whatever their condition be, they have no reason to be cast down, or be disquieted.
Yea, not only so, but take things asunder, and consider things by pieces, one from another, abstracting the means from the end, and so the Saints may have a true and real reason for their discouragements, for every affliction is Grievous. If the husbandman look only upon the breaking up of his ground, without respect to the harvest, he may wel be discouraged, but take both together, and so he wil not: thus if the Saints consider their breakings apart from their harvest, they may see cause for their discouragements: but if they do consider their breaking up, and their harvest together, the means and the end together, I say take altogether, and then, whatever their condition be, they have no reason to be cast down, or be disquieted.
Quest. What is there in or for the Saints, that may be a sufficient bulwark against all discouragements?
Quest. What is there in or for the Saints, that may be a sufficient bulwark against al discouragements?
Answ. 1 A Godly, Gracious man, hath propriety and interest in God himself. Some special men and women there are in the world, whom the great God of heaven and earth doth make over himself unto, and they that have him for their God and portion, have no reason to be disquieted whatever their condition be: thus it is with the Saints, and therefore the Psalmist doth not barely say, that he would rejoice, but that God was his exceeding joy: