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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.
Obj. I but Solomon saith, Whatsoever thou findest in thine hand to do, do it with all thy might.
Ans. True, and it is in our band to use the world, ⟨p. 134⟩as if we used it not; and therefore this we are to do with all our might, even to use the world as if we used it not: And so I have done with the second thing; though a good man may make use of the world, and the things thereof, yet he is to use the world, as if he used it not.
Ans. True, and it is in our band to use the world, ⟨p. 134⟩as if we us'd it not; and therefore this we are to do with all our might, even to use the world as if we us'd it not: And so I have done with the second thing; though a good man may make use of the world, and the things thereof, yet he is to use the world, as if he us'd it not.
3. I but then thirdly, what are those particular concernments wherein we are to use the world as if we used it not? why, the Apostle here doth instance in four.
3. I but then thirdly, what are those particular concernments wherein we are to use the world as if we us'd it not? why, the Apostle here doth instance in four.