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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.
Instance 3 Sometimes the discouragements of the Saints and people of God, are drawn, From their Duties, the failings, and successlessness of their Duties.
Instance 3 SOmtimes the discouragements of the Saints and people of God, are drawn, From their Duties, the failings, and successlessness of their Duties.
For, they reason thus: Through the Lords Grace and Mercy, I have been kept from great and gross sins, yet if the Lord loved me indeed, he would draw my heart near unto ⟨p. 92⟩himself; but when I come to prayer, or duty, I find so much deadness, dullness, and awkness of heart and spirit, that I fear the Lord will never accept such a one as I am, nor such duties as mine are: when I go to prayer, either prayer is altogether absent from me or I have no life therein; if I go to hear the word, I am not attentive, but filled with distractions; and whatever duty I perform, I want life, and love in it. O! my heart is like a rock, or stone; and therefore I fear the Lord will not accept my duty, and the rather, because I find, that I have been long at prayer, and I am never the better, the Lord hears me not, the Lord regards me not: and have I not just Reason, and Cause, to be discouraged now?
For, they reason thus: Through the Lords Grace and Mercy, I have been kept from great and gross sins, yet if the Lord loved me indeed, he would draw my heart neer unto ⟨p. 92⟩himself; but when I come to prayer, or duty, I find so much deadness, dulness, and awkness of heart and spirit, that I fear the Lord wil never accept such a one as I am, nor such duties as mine are: when I go to prayer, either prayer is altogether absent from me or I have no life therein; if I go to hear the word, I am not attentive, but filled with distractions; and whatever duty I perform, I want life, and love in it. O! my heart is like a rock, or stone; and therefore I fear the Lord wil not accept my duty, and the rather, because I find, that I have been long at prayer, and I am never the better, the Lord hears me not, the Lord regards me not: and have I not just Reason, and Cause, to be discouraged now?