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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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Fourthly, if you would order and manage all your sufferings so as they may turn to a good account, then set all your losses upon Christs head, and upon Christs score: which you may do, if you do suffer for Christs cause; which you may do, if you do suffer according to Christs example; which you may do, if you suffer with the same spirit and disposition that Christ did, & suffer in the strength of Christ, set all upon the head & score of Christ.
Fifthly, if you would so order and manage all your sufferings as that they may turn to a good account, then take heed that there be no contradiction found in the way of your suffering. A man may be very stiff, and stand out here, and yet he may yield there. Saith the Apostle, If I build again what I have destroyed, I make my self a transgressor. And, Blessed is the man that condemns not himself in the thing that he allows. 'Tis possible I may build that with one hand, that I may pull down with another. Possibly a man may be very stiff, and stand out at such a thing, and yet he may yield there. There may be contradictions found in the way of our suffering. And let me tell you this, if it be thus, your sufferings will come to little. Take heed that there be not contradictions therefore found in the way of your sufferings.
Fifthly, if you would so order and manage all your sufferings as that they may turn to a good account, then take heed that there be no contradiction found in the way of your suffering. A man may be very stiff, and stand out here, and yet he may yeeld there. Saith the Apostle, If I build again what I have destroyed, I make my self a transgressor. And, Blessed is the man that condemns not himself in the thing that he allows. 'Tis possible I may build that with one hand, that I may pull down with another. Possibly a man may be very stiff, and stand out at such a thing, and yet he may yeeld there. There may be contradictions found in the way of our suffering. And let me tell you this, if it be thus, your sufferings will come to little. Take heed that there be not contradictions therefore found in the way of your sufferings.