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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.
I answer, that a man may leave and forsake a worldly interest for Christ two ways:
Either by his own will, or the wills of others.
We do leave and forsake a worldly interest by our own wills, when we do voluntarily and freely deprive our selves of our commodity or satisfaction for Christ; as the Apostles left their ships and nets to follow Christ.
We (secondly) do leave or forsake a worldly interest by the wills of others, when through their oppression or persecution, we are deprived of our own commodity and satisfaction for Christ; and that is called suffering.
Our Saviour Christ here, hath respect to both: and in both these respects it's true, That whosoever doth leave any worldly interest for Christ, and his Name-sake, shall be sure to be well rewarded.