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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.
Then you do want this Character of a good man.
Then you are not dead to the World, and if not dead to the World, then not dead with Christ; and if not communion with Christ in his Death, not communion with him in his Resurrection.
Then you are defiled by the World, and the things thereof; use the world as if you used it not, and you are not defiled thereby; but if otherwise, you are defiled, by all the things that you meddle with, you are but defiled.
Then you are defiled by the World, and the things thereof; use the world as if you us'd it not, and you are not defiled thereby; but if otherwise, you are defiled, by all the things that you meddle with, you are but defiled.
And then your hearts will reproach you when you come to die; O when you come to die, and you lie upon your Death-bed; I had the World, and the things of the World, but I did not use the World as if I used it not: As the Mother said, Where's the Child in the Cradle, when the house was on fire, and they had been getting out the goods, and pulling things out of the Fire: But at last, Where's the Child in the Cradle? So at last, when we come to die, O where's my Soul all this while? Your heart will reproach you when you come to die; and blessed is that man or woman whose heart shall not reproach him when he comes to die.