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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.
Fifthly, But when may a man be said then, so to use the world as if he used it not?
Fifthly, But when may a man be said then, so to use the world as if he us'd it not?
Why look, when a man doth so use the world; and the things thereof, as he doth walk with God in the use thereof, then he uses the world as if he used it not; when one man walks with another, he turns as he turns: So when a man walks with God in the world, he turns as God turns: When God calls to joy, he joys; when God calls to grief, he grieves; he walks with God, for he turns as God turns: I say, look when a man doth so use the world, as he doth walk with God in the use of the world, turning as God turns, then he doth use the world as if he used it not.
Why look, when a man doth so use the world; and the things thereof, as he doth walk with God in the use thereof, then he uses the world as if he us'd it not; when one man walks with another, he turns as he turns: So when a man walks with God in the world, he turns as God turns: When God calls to joy, he joys; when God calls to grief, he grieves; he walks with God, for he turns as God turns: I say, look when a man doth so use the world, as he doth walk with God in the use of the world, turning as God turns, then he doth use the world as if he us'd it not.
Secondly, Look when a man doth use the world, and the things thereof, in subordination to the things of God, then he doth use the world as if he used it not, in subordination to the things of God.
Secondly, Look when a man doth use the world, and the things thereof, in subordination to the things of God, then he doth use the world as if he us'd it not, in subordination to the things of God.