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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 conceive the reason essentially is this, because Persecution grows upon the second Commandment. Those that hate the people of God, hat• God. N•w where doth the hatred and persecution grow? Upon the keeping the second Commandment; not conforming to mens inventions, keeping close to the institutions of God; here's Persecution grows upon this Commandment: well, saith God, I will visit th• iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. But ⟨p. 75⟩as for those that keep this Commandment: And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my Commandments. Why doth he say Commandments, and not, this Commandment?
I conceive the reason essentially is this, because Persecution grows upon the second Commandment. Those that hate the people of God, hat• God. N•w where doth the hatred and persecution grow? Upon the keeping the second Commandment; not conforming to mens inventions, keeping close to the institutions of God; here's Persecution grows upon this Commandment: well, saith God, I will visit th• iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. But ⟨p. 75⟩as for those that keep this Commandment: And sh•wing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my Commandments. Why doth he say Commandments, and not, this Commandment?
The reason is this, because in the second Commandment all institutions are commanded; all the inventions of men are forbidden. All the institutions of Christ come within the second Commandment; and therefore, saith he, I will show mercy to a thousand generations of those that lve me, and kep my commandments. Now here's an hundred-fold, in that mercy is shown to a thousand generations. Well, what God gives to our children, and to our posterity, that he gives unto us.