A29372:746
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.
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.
The Disease is great indeed, a disease common unto the Children of men to depart from God.
And the Disease is very dangerous; for else, why should we take heed thereof? I shall speak something to all these, and not so much as to single out any Doctrine: But thus from the first.
It is a very dangerous thing to depart from God.
Q. When may a man be said to depart from God, or a people said to depart from God: And what is the danger of it?
A. For answer, There is a total departing from God, and a partial departing from God; every sin that we do commit is a departing from God. For what is sin, but an Avertency from the Creator, and a Convertency to the Creature?