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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.
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.
And thirdly, Look when a man doth make it his business for to serve the Lord, and doth the things of the world by his by, then he doth use the world as if he used it not: As if a man doth make it his business to get the world, and prays by the by, and reads the Scriptures by the by, and doth good by the by: Now when a man doth make it his business to get the World, and uses the things of God by the by, then he doth use the things of God as if he used them not. So on the other side.