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Seasonable truths in evil-times in several sermons / lately preached in and about London
Seasonable truths in evil-times in several sermons / lately preached in and about London by William Bridge, late preacher of the word of God at Yarmouth.Seasonable truths in evil-times in several sermons / lately preached in and about London by Willam Bridge, late preacher of the word of God at Yarmouth.
London: printed for Nath. Crouch, 1668
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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.
The second demonstration of it, to clear it, is this:
If a man may spoil and lose all his former sufferings by his after-sins; and if a man may recover, repair, recompense his former backwardness to suffer, by his after-faith and grace; then presently the last may be first, and the first may be last in point of suffering. So it is.
If a man may spoil and lose all his former sufferings by his after-sins; and if a man may recover, repair, recompence his former backwardness to suffer, by his after-faith and grace; then presently the last may be first, and the first may be last in point of suffering. So it is.
Possibly a man may lose all his former-sufferings by his after-sins: Foolish Galatians! (saith the Apostle) have ye suffered so many things in vain, if yet in vain? They fell from the doctrine of ⟨p. 37⟩grace, to justification by works; and they lost all their sufferings by their after-sins.