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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.
2. He is always ready to give up that part of the world unto God wherein his affections are most engaged, His Isaac; for saith he, God doth use to try his people in the things wherein they do most delight: And therefore still he is upon that, ready to give up that unto God wherein his affections are the most engaged.
2. He is alwayes ready to give up that part of the world unto God wherein his affections are most engaged, His Isaac; for saith he, God doth use to try his people in the things wherein they do most delight: And therefore still he is upon that, ready to give up that unto God wherein his affections are the most engaged.
3. He will be sure to stand at a distance from the World and the things thereof, in the getting, as well as in the keeping; and in the keeping as well as in ⟨p. 150⟩the getting. There are some that are very worldly in the getting part, and are very free and prodigal as to the keeping. Some are not so worldly in the getting, but they are worldly in the keeping. A man that doth use the world as if he used it not, he doth stand at a distance from the things of the world in the getting as well as in the keeping, and in the keeping as well as in the getting.
4. He doth not place his Religion in a morning and in an evening duty, but in his walking with God in his place. Every man hath so much grace as he uses in his place. Consider what I say, He doth not place his Religion (he that uses the world as if he used it not) in a morning and in an evening Prayer, but in his walking with God. Adams trial did not lye in the Morning and in the Evening Prayer; but Adams trial lay among the Trees. So the trial of a man don't lye in the morning and in the evening duty, but in the Trees, and in his Calling, and in his place. And he doth not place his Religion merely in a morning Prayer, or in an evening Prayer, and all the day after muddling up and down in the earth. No, he that uses the world as if he used it not, he doth not place his Religion in an Evening, or in a Morning duty, but in walking with God in the use of the world.