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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.
A third consideration is this. Look what that is which we have in effect, that we have in truth, though we have it not in the formality. Now look whatsoever you do lay out for Christ, whatsoever worldly interest you do part withal, and forsake for Christ, that you shall have in effect. Why? because the same affection doth still remain. I will express it thus: Suppose you have a Crab-stock, and there you plant a Harvey, or a Pearmain, or a Pippin; why the Pippin is an hundred times better then the Crab would have been. Why 'tis the same stock still, under the Harvey, or Pippin, or Pearmain; only there's an Apple planted that's an hundred times better then the Crab was. So now, you have a delight in the things of the world: well, you leave this delight for Christ; you leave not the affection, but there's a better object planted upon the affection; and there being a better object planted upon the same delight, thus you have ⟨p. 76⟩the same thing you part withal for the Name of Christ in an hundred-fold.
A third consideration is this. Look what that is which we have in eff•ct, that we have in truth, though we have it not in the formality. Now look whatsoever you do lay out for Christ, whatsoever worldly interest you do part withal, and forsake for Christ, that you shall have in effect. Why? because the same affection doth still remain. I will express it thus: Suppose you have a Crab-stock, and there you plant a Harvie, or a Pearmain, or a Pippin; why the Pippin is an hundred times better then the Crab would have been. Why 'tis the same stock still, under the Harvie, or Pippin, or Pearmain; onely there's an Apple planted that's an hundred times better then the Crab was. So now, you have a delight in the things of the world: well, you leave this delight for Christ; you leave not the affection, but there's a better object planted upon the affection; and there being a better object planted upon the same delight, thus you have ⟨p. 76⟩the same thing you part withal for the Name of Christ in an hundred-fold.