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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
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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.
4. then observe what those evils are, those sins are, that have had a hand in bringing this Reproach upon the Solemn Assembly, and do not meddle therewithal: Take heed you do not add any of them to the heap. If a man have a burden upon his shoulder, that he cannot stand under, and you go to lay any more upon him; (saith he) I pray take heed, I have as much on me, as my back will bear: And if there be company in a Boat, that the Boat be full, and another offer to come in; O no by no means, the Boat is ready to sink already: Truly thus it is, the Boat is ready to sink already it is so full. And do you look upon the Reproach of the Solemn Assembly as your burden; O then, take notice what it was that brought the Reproach, and take heed of that.
4. then observe what those evils are, those sins are, that have had a hand in bringing this Reproach upon the Solemn Assembly, and do not meddle therewithal: Take heed you do not add any of them to the heap. If a man have a burdenupon his shoulder, that he cannot stand under, and you go to lay any more upon him; (saith he) I pray take heed, I have as much on me, as my back will bear: And if there be company in a Boat, that the Boat be full, and another offer to come in; O no by no means, the Boat is ready to sink already: Truely thus it is, the Boat is ready to sink already it is so full. And do you look upon the Reproach of the Solemn Assembly as your burthen; O then, take notice what it was that brought the Reproach, and take heed of that.