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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.
Sermon 3: The way to obtain a sure and great Reward. SERM. III.
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 reward which is more large, extending unto all, v. 29. And every one: not one of you shall be rewarded that are mine Apostles; but EVERY ONE that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my Name-sake, shall receive an hundred-fold, and shall inherit everlasting life. From whence then I took up this Observation; and you may observe from the whole thus much:
That whosoever shall leave any worldly interest for Christ, and for his Name sake, shall be sure to be well rewarded.
He shall be well rewarded: for he shall have an hundred-fold in this life, and everlasting life in the world to come. And he shall be sure to be well rewarded; for he hath put a verily upon it: Verily I say unto you, and every one that hath forsaken houses, &c. So then, the Doctrine is clear, That whosoever shall leave or forsake any worldly interest for Christ, and for his Name-sake, shall be sure to be well rewarded.
For the clearing of this, first, we must enquire what it is to leave any worldly interest for Christ, and for his Name-sake.