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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.
And if we do depart from God, God will depart from us: God is with us while we are with him, but if we forsake the Lord, he will forsake us; if we depart from God, God will depart from us: God comes first to us, but we go first from him; God doth not leave any, but those that leave him first; He comes to us before we come to him, but if we depart from him, he will depart from us: and if God go, the Devil comes; the Lord rejected Saul, and an evil Spirit came presently upon him: therefore who would not take heed of departing from God? But
Secondly, As we are to take heed of departing from God, so we are to take heed of Unbelief, and of an unbelieving heart, whereby we depart from God; for the sin of unbelief, and an unbelieving heart is very cunning and makes a deceitful heart: ⟨p. 224⟩Therefore saith the Apostle in the words following: least ye be hardened, through the deceitfulness of sin. It hath very many pretences and fair colours. When they were invited by the Gospel, what excuses had they, all from unbelief? I have married a Wife, and I cannot come; and I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go see it, I pray thee, have me excused; And I have bought five yoke of Oxen, and I go to prove them; I pray thee have me excused. No, no, I have unbelief in my heart, and I cannot come; Unbelief made all these Excuses, 'tis cunning heart, a deceiving sin, the sin of unbelief.
Secondly, As we are to take heed of departing from God, so we are to take heed of Unbelief, and of an unbelieving heart, whereby we depart from God; for the sin of unbelief, and an unbelieving heart is very cunning and makes a deceitful heart: ⟨p. 224⟩Therefore saith the Apostle in the words following: least ye be hardned, through the deceitfulness of sin. It hath very many pretences and fair colours. When they were invited by the Gospel, what excuses had they, all from unbelief? I have married a Wife, and I cannot come; and I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go see it, I pray thee, have me excused; And I have bought five yoke of Oxen, and I go to prove them; I pray thee have me excused. No, no, I have unbelief in my heart, and I cannot come; Unbelief made all these Excuses, 'tis cunning heart, a deceiving sin, the sin of unbelief.