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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.
All the things of this world, they are but to serve a turn, they are not to be enjoyed for themselves, ⟨p. 133⟩only for to serve a turn; there is nothing that you have to deal withal, but is merely for to serve a turn; Clothes are but to serve a turn, to cover nakedness; good meat and drink is but to serve a turn, to serve our hunger, and our thirst; money, and houses, and lands, are all but to serve a turn, only God is to be enjoyed; God is not for to serve a turn, but all the things of this world, they are only for to serve a particular turn: The Schoolmen therefore have a handsome speech of a worldly man, they describe him, He doth enjoy what he should use, and he doth use what he should enjoy: God is to be enjoyed, and he uses him; the world is to be used, and he enjoys that: but 'tis God alone that is to be enjoyed for himself; all things here are but to serve a turn, and therefore why should we not use the world as if we used it not.
All the things of this world, they are but to serve a turn, they are not to be enjoyed for themselves, ⟨p. 133⟩only for to serve a turn; there is nothing that you have to deal withall, but is meerly for to serve a turn; Cloaths are but to serve a turn, to cover nakedness; good meat and drink is but to serve a turn, to serve our hunger, and our thirst; money, and houses, and lands, are all but to serve a turn, only God is to be enjoyed; God is not for to serve a turn, but all the things of this world, they are only for to serve a particular turn: The Schoolmen therefore have a handsome speech of a worldly man, they deforibe him, He doth enjoy what he should use, and he doth use what he should enjoy: God is to be enjoyed, and he uses him; the world is to be used, and he enjoys that: but 'tis God alone that is to be enjoyed for himself; all things here are but to serve a turn, and therefore why should we not use the world as if we us'd it not.
Fifthly, If the world do use us, as if it used us not, and if the world do care for us, as if it cared not for us, why should not we use the world as if we used it not? Paul reasons after this manner, in