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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.
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.
But then still to clear it: