A29372:769
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.
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.
2. As an unbelieving heart is an hard heart, so so an unbelieving heart is an unclean heart: For faith ⟨p. 218⟩purifies the heart, and therefore where the heart is unbelieving, the heart is unpurified, and so is unclean: An unbelieving heart is an unclean heart.