A29372:733
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
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2. Then strengthen your love unto God, and his Ways, and Children, and Ordinances; Dollar amoris ⟨p. 210⟩filia, grief is the Daughter of love: I grieve for the loss of what I love, and no further than I love. If I would grieve and be sensible of the Reproach of the Solemn Assembly, strengthen your love: Love to the Ordinances, love to the Solemn Assembly, love to God. And
2. Then strengthen your love unto God, and his Waies, and Children, and Ordinances; Dol•r amoris ⟨p. 210⟩filia, grief is the Daughter of love: I grieve for the loss of what I love, and no further than I love. If I would grieve and be sensible of the Reproach of the Solemn Assembly, strengthen your love: Love to the Ordinances, love to the Solemn Assembly, love to God. And
3. Then take advantage from all those occasions that you meet withal, to enlarge your mourning, and your sense. When a man would leap far, he takes his rise upon a Mole-hill, that he may leap the farther. Friends, you have many rises this day, for your mourning, and for your sense, improve all those rises, as you meet with any occasion, look upon them as so many Mole-hills, look upon them as so many rises for to go the farther in your sense of the Reproach of the Solemn Assembly.
3. Then take advantage from all those occasions that you meet withal, to inlarge your mourning, and your sense. When a man would leap far, he takes his rise upon a Mole-hill, that he may leap the farther. Friends, you have many rises this day, for your mourning, and for your sense, improve all those rises, as you meet with any occasion, look upon them as so many Mole-hills, look upon them as so many rises for to go the farther in your sense of the Reproach of the Solemn Assembly.