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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.
And as for love, you know what the Apostle saith, If I give my body to be burnt, and want love, it profiteth me nothing. So then, as ever you desire your sufferings may turn to a good account, let your faith towards God, and your love towards man be exercised. And let these be the two great wheels that all your sufferings shall be drawn upon.
And as for love, you know what the Apostle saith, If I give my body to be burnt, and want love, it profiteth me nothing. So then, as ever you desire your sufferings may turn to a good account, let your faith towards God, and your love towards man be exercised. And let these be the two great wheels that all your sufferings shal be drawn upon.
Ninthly, if you would order your sufferings so as they may turn to a good account, then labour to be serviceable in and by your sufferings. If ever God call you to a prison, labour to be as serviceable in and by your suffering, as ever you can. Peter was in prison; what came on't? was there any converted? No. Why so? Peter slept. I but Paul and Silas they sang in the stocks, and they preach in the prison, and there's the Jailer converted. ⟨p. 57⟩They were serviceable in and by their sufferings, and it turned to a good account. And therefore if you would desire that your sufferings may turn to a good account, labour to be serviceable in & by your sufferings as God calls you into.
Ninthly, if you would order your sufferings so as they may turn to a good account, then labour to be serviceable in and by your sufferings. If ever God call you to a prison, labour to be as serviceable in and by your suffering, as ever you can. Peter was in prison; what came on't? was there any converted? No. Why so? Peter slept. I but Paul and Silas they sang in the stocks, and they preach in the prison, and there's the Jaylor converted. ⟨p. 57⟩They were serviceable in and by their sufferings, and it turned to a good account. And therefore if you would desire that your sufferings may turn to a good account, labour to be serviceable in & by your sufferings as God calls you into.