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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
But you will say, How can this be, that there should be a great deal of suffering that will amount to little, and a little suffering that will amount to much?
Both ways I answer.
First, if you ask how it can be that a great deal of sufferings should come to little;
I answer first, 'tis possible that a man may lose, that he may gain. I am a Minister, and have a Living; and I may lose my Living possibly, that I may get a livelihood another way. I may suffer, and go to prison, that I may be maintained. I do not reflect upon any particular, but only to show the deceitfulness of our hearts in such a case.
I answer first, 'tis possible that a man may lose, that he may gain. I am a Minister, and have a Living; and I may lose my Living possibly, that I may get a livelihood another way. I may suffer, and go to prison, that I may be maintain'd. I do not reflect upon any particular, but only to shew the deceitfulness of our hearts in such a case.