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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.
Now put all these seven things together: why every •ne of them is a great matter, but put them all together, and you cannot but say we shall have a thousand-fold in this life.
I but mark, the Apostle tells us we shall have an hundred-fold in the fame kind, in this life: how can that be?
I but mark, the Apostle tells us we shall have an hundred-fold in the fame kinde, in this life: how can that be?
Why if you look into Mark 10. you shall find that Mark doth not say in so many words, that we shall have an hundred-fold in this life, in the same kind; but saith thus: Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, that there is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sister, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake and the Gospels, but he shall receive an hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with PERSECUTIONS. But he don't say he shall have it in ••e same kind, An hundred-fold in this life, and an hundred-fold in the same kind. When Peter left his nets and his fishing for Christ, Christ made him a fisher of men: now that was an ••ndred-fold ⟨p. 73⟩in this life, but not in the same kind. But to clear up this, take these four or five considerations.
Why if you look into Mark 10