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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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So on the other side, you know the stories there that go together: a certain man comes to Christ, and saith, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. Saith Christ, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man hath not whereon to lay his head. Then Christ comes to another, and saith to him, Follow me. Lord, saith he, I must go bury my father. Why let the dead bury their dead. What's the meaning of this, but to show thus much, That the first shall be last, and the last shall be first, in forsaking their worldly interests for Christ, and for the Name of Christ?
So on the other side, you know the stories there that go together: a certain man comes to Christ, and saith, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. Saith Christ, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man hath not whereon to lay his head. Then Christ comes to another, and saith to him, Follow me. Lord, saith he, I must go bury my father. Why let the dead bury their dead. What's the meaning of this, but to shew thus much, That the first shall be last, and the last shall be first, in forsaking their worldly interests for Christ, and for the Name of Christ?
Fourthly, this is true also in point of Resolution: many that are first in resolving to suffer, shall be last to suffer when it comes to; and many that are last in resolving, shall be first in suffering. Lord (saith Peter) though all men forsake thee, yet will not I. Bravely resolved! but though he was first in the resolve, yet he was first in forsaking Christ. The cock shall not crow before thou deny me. And you know how it was with those *two in the Book of Martyrs: the one was a very fat man, and he would burn, his grease should fry in the fire for the Name of Christ: the other was a lean man, and he cries out, Oh I am afraid I shall never hold out! ⟨p. 41⟩But when it came to, the lean man was the Martyr, and the fat man would not burn. So that that is true in the point of Resolution.