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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.
Or will you instance in the Religion piece and part of the world, and the fashion thereof? You know what is said in Heb. 12. v. 26. Once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven; speaking of the Jewish Worship, the Religious part, and this word, yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things that cannot be shaken may remain. Indeed, saith he, we have received a Kingdom, wherefore we receiving a Kingdom which cannot be moved. Indeed the Kingdom of the Gospel it cannot be moved, and the gates of hell shall never prevail against the Church of God in the general, but the fashion of particular Churches may pass away, and be broken. What a famous Church was Coloss in the days of the Apostle; but O thou Coloss, where art thou now? What a famous Church was the Church of the Thessalonians? where is the Church of the Thessalonians now? this Tabernacle is pulled down, particular Churches, though the Kingdom of Christ shall go on, and shall prevail, particular Churches may be scattered, and the fashion thereof may pass away.
Or will you instance in the Religion piece and part of the world, and the fashion thereof? You know what is said in Heb. 12. v. 26. Once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven; speaking of the Jewish Worship, the Religious part, and this word, yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things that cannot be shaken may remain. Indeed, saith he, we have received a Kingdom, wherefore we receiving a Kingdom which cannot be moved. Indeed the Kingdom of the Gospel it cannot be moved, and the gates of hell shall never prevail against the Church of God in the general, but the fashion of particular Churches may pass away, and be broken. What a famous Church was Coloss in the daies of the Apostle; but O thou Coloss, where art thou now? What a famous Church was the Church of the Thessalonians? where is the Church of the Thessalonians now? this Tabernacle is pull'd down, particular Churches, though the Kingdom of Christ shall go on, and shall prevail, particular Churches may be scattered, and the fashion thereof may pass away.