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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.
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.
As for the first, I shall clear it by several particulars; and but name them.
An unbelieving heart is an evil heart, for it is an hard heart; and therefore you have it in the following words, Least any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin: What is an hard heart? we are generally mistaken about an hard heart; we think ordinarily that when a mans heart is straitened in duty, then his heart is hard: No, a man may be straitened in duty, and yet his heart may be soft: But a th•ng is said to be hard when it don't yield: Soft when it doth yield. Touch hard wax and it yields not, touch soft wax and it yields, and takes the impression: A soft heart yields unto Gods impressions; a hard heart yields not, but resists and contradicts: So doth an unbelieving heart: An unbelieving heart is a contradicting, resisting, an unyielding heart; and therefore properly an unbelieving heart is a hard heart.
An unbelieving heart is an evil heart, for it is an hard heart; and therefore you have it in the following words, Least any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin: What is an hard heart? we are generally mistaken about an hard heart; we think ordinarily that when a mans heart is straitned in duty, then his heart is hard: No, a man may be straitned in duty, and yet his heart may be soft: But a th•ng is said to be hard when it dont yield: Soft when it doth yield. Touch hard wax and it yields not, touch soft wax and it yields, and takes the impression: A soft heart yields unto Gods impressions; a hard heart yields not, but resists and contradicts: So doth an unbelieving heart: An unbelieving heart is a contradicting, resisting, an unyielding heart; and therefore properly an unbelieving heart is a hard heart.