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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.
And in the matter of our possessions; And they that buy, as though they possessed not. I shall run through them briefly, that we may have the clear understanding of the case, and the matter before us.
And in the matter of our p•ssessions; And they that buy, as though they possessed not. I shall run through them briefly, that we may have the clear understanding of the case, and the matter before us.
First, As for the matter of our Relations, saith the Apostle, It remaineth, that both they that have wives, be as though they had none: A man may use his Relations, as if he had none; His Relations:
Why, but is not a man to provide for his wife, and children, and family?
Yes, he is worse than an Infidel that provideth not for his Wife, and for his Family, for his Relations. But when a man hath Relations, he is very apt to be lost therein; a man may be drunk with his own Bear or Wine: I have married a Wife, and I cannot come; therefore he is to use his Relations as f he had none, in regard of his care to please God; as diligent in frequenting the means of grace, as if he had no Relations: For, saith he, v. 32.