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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.
First, for the natural piece, the Fashion of the World: what stronger piece of the World than the Heavens and Earth. Now Read what is said in the first of the Hebrews v. 10, 11. Thou Lord in the beginning hast laid the Foundation of the Earth, and the Heavens are the works of thine hands. They shall perish, but thou remainest, and they all shall wax old as doth a Garment, and as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed, but thou art the same, as the Heb. in the Psalms, But thou art he. But thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail; but as for them, though these things be brushed over a little, as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed. The ⟨p. 142⟩nap of all these things, the fashion of all these things, it will pass away.
First, for the natural piece, the Fashion of the World: what stronger piece of the World than the Heavens and Earth. Now Read what is said in the first of the Hebrews v. 10, 11. Thou Lord in the beginning hast laid the Foundation of the Earth, and the Heavens are the works of thine hands. They shall perish, but thou remainest, and they all shall wax old as doth a Garment, and as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed, but thou art the same, as the Heb. in the Psalmes, But thou art he. But thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail; but as for them, though these things be brusht over a little, as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed. The ⟨p. 142⟩nap of all these things, the fashion of all these things, it will pass away.
Or will you instance in the civil moral part of the world, that fashion thereof? What more desirable thing is there in all the world than friendship, a true friend to an ingenuous heart, there is nothing in this world more desirable than friendship? Will you see how that passeth away? In