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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 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.
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 us'd 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.
Yea, let me say this farther, you cannot more prejudice the thing you love, nor wrong your selves more, than by loving it too much, and not using of it as if you used it not: A man leans upon a stick, and if it be too weak it breaks, he breaks the stick, and it runs into his hand; the stick suffers, and his hand suffers: So when we come to lean upon a thing, and don't use it as if we used it not, it