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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 if that good men have other greater things and possessions for to mind, and they cannot intensively mind both: why then a man must surely so possess, as if he possessed not. Why now a good man hath higher and greater possessions to mind, and inheritance Incorruptible, undefiled, that fadeth not away, reserved in the Heavens: And both he cannot mind together, but he must love the one and hate the other. The intention about the one, must be remissness about the other. Then surely it is our duty to use the World as if we used it not, in reference unto this concernment; namely, this concernment of our possessions. And so you see the thing now cleared by these four instances: We are to use the World as if we used it not; In the matter of our Relations; In the matter of our griefs; In the matter of our Joys; And in the matter of our possessions.
And if that good men have other greater things and possessions for to mind, and they cannot intensively mind both: why then a man must surely so possess, as if he possessed not. Why now a good man hath higher and greater possessions to mind, and inheritance Incorruptible, undefiled, that fadeth not away, reserved in the Heavens: And both he cannot mind together, but he must love the one and hate the other. The intention about the one, must be remisness about the other. Then surely it is our duty to use the World as if we used it not, in reference unto this concernment; namely, this concernment of our possessions. And so you see the thing now cleared by these four instances: We are to use the World as if we used it not; In the matter of our Relations; In the matter of our griefs; In the matter of our Joyes; And in the matter of our possessions.
Well, but then fourthly. In the fourth place: What is there in these Reasons of the Apostle, The shortness of the time, And the Fashion of the world passing away. What is there in these Reasons that may enforce this Exhortation, To use the World as if we used it not.
Well, but then fourthly. In the fourth place: What is there in these Reasons of the Apostle, The shortness of the time, And the Fashion of the world passing away. What is there in these Reasons that may inforce this Exhortation, To use the World as if we used it not.