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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.
Answ. Nay, (saith the Lord) And I will bless them that bless thee, and I will curse him that curseth thee. See what a great promise here is made: When did this promise come? So Abraham departed, as the L•rd had spoken to him. Look when we do forsake any worldly interest for the Lord, then comes the promise. Now is not one promise better then any worldly interest, an hundred times better?
But secondly, is it not a gre•• matter to have the favour of God the Father, the heart of God ⟨p. 68⟩drawn out unto us, to be amiable and beautiful in the eyes of God the Father? Now look when a man doth forsake any worldly interest for God, then he is beautiful in the eyes of God; never so amiable or beautiful in the eyes of God, as then. Take it thus:
Beauty raises Persecution, and Persecution raises Beauty: they are mutual causes.
Beauty raises Persecution, and Persecution raises Beauty: they are matual causes.