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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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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.
And so on the other side, as Beauty raises Persecution, so Persecution raises Beauty. A man's never more beautiful in the eyes of God, then when he is persecuted for the Name of Christ, and when he doth leave and forsake a worldly interest upon the account of Christ. You may see it in Psal. 45. vers. 10. Hearken O daughter, consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy fathers house: so shall the King greatly desire thy beauty. See where the beauty lies, in forgetting of the fathers house: in leaving and forsaking a worldly interest upon the account of Christ, here's beauty. Now is it not an hundred times better to be beautiful in the eyes of God the Father, and of Christ, then to have a worldly interest? Certainly it is.
But then thirdly, Is it not a great matter for a man to have communion and fellowship with Jesus Christ in his sufferings? If ye suffer with him, ye shall reign with him, saith the Apostle. Now we have communion and fellowship with Christ in his sufferings, either at the Lords Supper, ⟨p. 70⟩or in our sufferings for Christ: but with this difference: we have communion and fellowship with Christ in our sufferings for Christ, by fi•ing up the sufferings of Christ: we have communion and fellowship with Christ in the Lords Supper; but then we don't fill up the sufferings of Christ: but in our sufferings for Christ we have communion and fellowship with Christ, by filling up the sufferings of Christ. So that here's a specialty of communion with Christ, by suffering for the Lord Jesus. Now is it not an hundred times better to have communion and fellowship with Christ in his sufferings, then to have a worldly interest?
But then thirdly, Is it not a great matter for a man to have communion and fellowship with Jesus Christ in his sufferings? If ye suffer with him, ye shall reign with him, saith the Apostle. Now we have communion and fellowship with Christ in his sufferings, either at the Lords Supper, ⟨p. 70⟩