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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.
Secondly, Look upon the things of the World, with the prospective of the Scripture; not with one of the worlds glasses: Not with the worlds Multiplying-glass. The world, and the glass of the world; If you look upon the world with the glass of the world, there you shall find that the things of the world are called Goods, and they are called Substance, An Estate and Substance. But look upon the world with the Prospective of the Scriptures, there they are called Shadows, there they are called Vanities, there they are called Things that are not. Whats the reason that people are so much in love with the things of the world, but because they look upon them with the multiplying glass of the world, and not with the glass, and prospective of the Scripture?
Thirdly, Never fall in love with any condition for it self, but for the good of the condition. Love not your condition for the condition it self, but for the God of your condition. I do but name things.
Fourthly, Take all Gods Allarums of death, and mingle those with the consideration of the death of Christ, Christ crucified. There is never a death that doth pass before us, but its Gods Alarm, and it ⟨p. 152⟩calls off from the world and the things thereof. Truly this I must say, It is not all the deaths in the world will make us dye to the world, only the death of Christ: take Christ Crucified, and then you will dye to the world. And therefore I say, take Gods Alla•ums of death, but be sure that you mingle those Alarums with the consideration of the death of Jesus Christ.