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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.
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.
Beloved, I shall not give you any negative signs, but I shall make mention of some things, which if you have, and can find, you may certainly say, you are grown in Grace. But mistake not, I do not say, that if you do not find these, that therefore you should conclude that you are not grown. I come rather to comfort and to lift up the weary Soul, then to trouble it: but, I say, If you do find these, you are certainly grown in Grace.
Answ. 1. First, The great work of the Gospel it is to believe; and if you can rely more upon Christ in the time of your temptations then heretofore, surely you are grown in Grace.
If you do find again a greater sweetness in the ways of God, then you have found heretofore, certainly you are grown: when we come and look upon a flower, we look at the colour of the flower, and the smell of the flower; but the Bee doth not regard the colour of the flower, or the smell of the flower, but the Bee regards the sweetness of the flower: so at our first coming into the ways of God, then we look at the colour, and how they appear; but afterwards, the more Grace you have, the more sweetness you find; and if you find more sweetness, certainly you are grown more.