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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.
Only by the way, Let no man mis-apply this Doctrine, saying, If we should not be discouraged, although we do want Assurance, then I will neglect the getting of my Assurance. Beloved! ye see into what times we are now fallen, times of War, and Rumours of War, times of Blood, these are dying times; and is this a time for any of you to want Assurance of Gods Love? When your Hay lies abroad in the Summer, and you see a shower coming, you say, Cock up, Cock up: And I would to God you might not see showers a coming, and yet your Evidences for Heaven lie at random; Wherefore, in the Name of the Lord, Cock up, Cock up; and you that have false Assurance (for you have heard that a man may think his condition is good, when it is naught, yea, that he may die so too) look you well into your condition, and consider your ⟨p. 128⟩condition duly, this is no time to have false Assurance: labour then, to get true Assurance; and you that have Assurance, labour to grow up more and more into it, and the riches thereof.
Only by the way, Let no man mis-apply this Doctrine, saying, If we should not be discouraged, although we do want Assurance, then I will neglect the getting of my Assurance. Beloved! ye see into what times we are now fallen, times of War, and Rumors of War, times of Blood, these are dying times; and is this a time for any of you to want Assurance of Gods Love? When your Hay lies abroad in the Summer, and you see a shower coming, you say, Cock up, Cock up: And I would to God you might not see showers a coming, and yet your Evidences for Heaven lie at random; Wherefore, in the Name of the Lord, Cock up, Cock up; and you that have false Assurance (for you have heard that a man may think his condition is good, when it is naught, yea, that he may die so too) look you well into your condition, and consider your ⟨p. 128⟩condition duly, this is no time to have false Assurance: labor then, to get true Assurance; and you that have Assurance, labor to grow up more and more into it, and the riches thereof.