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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.
Eighthly and lastly, Consider what a good thing it is to use this world as if we used it not.
Eighthly and lastly, Consider what a good thing it is to use this world as if we us'd it not.
Thereby you shall be able for to want, and to part with the world with ease: I know how to want, saith Paul, and I know how to abound. Truly give me but this grace, and I will speak with Paul; give me but this grace, to use the world as if I used it not, and I will say with him, Now I know how to want, and how to abound: If you use your Relation as if you used it not, you will part with your Relation more easily; if you use your Land as if you used it not, you will part with it more easily: Christians, parting times are coming, the Lord knows how soon we may be parted from the bosom of our dearest ⟨p. 154⟩Relations, and from all our enjoyments that we have here; would you part easily when the parting blow shall come? Now use the world as if you used it not: now use the world as if you used it not.
Thereby you shall be able for to want, and to part with the world with ease: I know how to want, saith Paul, and I know how to abound. Truly give me but this grace, and I will speak with Paul; give me but this grace, to use the world as if I us'd it not, and I will say with him, Now I know how to want, and how to abound: If you use your Relation as if you us'd it not, you will part with your Relation more easily; if you use your Land as if you us'd it not, you will part with it more easily: Christians, parting times are coming, the Lord knows how soon we may be parted from the bosom of our dearest ⟨p. 154⟩Relations, and from all our enjoyments that we have here; would you part easily when the parting blow shall come? Now use the world as if you us'd it not: now use the world as if you us'd it not.