A29372:799
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. If you would not depart from God, the Living God through unbelief: Take heed of venturing upon any sin because it's small, yielding to any Error because 'tis little, leaving any truth because it is but little or small. There are some passage truths (as I may call them) in time of War when one Army is against another, you shall see how earnestly they will contend for a little passage, a little spot of ground; ask them the reason, O that's a passage: So there are some truths that are but small in themselves, and they are passage truths: and if you would not depart from God, and the great truths; look to passage truths, look to keep your passages.
3. If you would not depart from God, the Living God through unbelief: Take heed of venturing upon any sin because it's small, yielding to any Errour because 'tis little, leaving any truth because it is but little or small. There are some passage truths (as I may call them) in time of War when one Army is against another, you shall see how earnestly they will contend for a little passage, a little spot of ground; ask them the reason, O that's a passage: So there are some truths that are but small in themselves, and they are passage truths: and if you would not depart from God, and the great truths; look to passage truths, look to keep your passages.
4. If you would not depart from God, the Living ⟨p. 227⟩God through unbelief, Be sure that you lay all your work in sincerity; for the ground that had not Root in it self, falls away. Take this for a certain Rule. He that begins in Hypocrisy, will end in Apostasy. Here are some it may be (though but few of us) that are beginning, and laying the foundation: Look to your foundation, that it be laid well in sincerity; for if your foundation be laid in hypocrisy, you will end in Apostasy.
4. If you would not depart from God, the Living ⟨p. 227⟩