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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 5: The uncertainty of the world, should take off our Hearts from the Love of it.
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.
1 Cor. 7. 30, 31. But this I say Brethren, the time is short. It remaineth, that both they that have Wives, be as though they had none And they that weep as though they wept not: And they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not: And they that buy, as though they possessed not: And they that use this world, as not abusing it; for the fashion of this world passeth away.
1 Cor. 7. 30, 31. But this I say Brethren, the time is short. It remaineth, that both they that have Wives, be as though they had none And they that weep as though they wept not: And they that rejoice, as though they rejoyced not: And they that buy, as though they possessed not: And they that use this world, as not abusing it; for the fashion of this world passeth away.
But this I say Brethren, the time is short, &c.]
BUt this I say Brethren, the time is short, &c.]
In this Scripture we have a great Exhortation to use this World as if we used it not, which the Apostle openeth by divers instances, and strengtheneth by divers Arguments. The general Exhortation brings up the Rear, They that use this world as if they used it not, or as not abusing it. The instances march in the body and middle of the words; They that have Wives, as though ⟨p. 128⟩they had none; and they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not. Which are enclosed with two Reasons: