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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.
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⟩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 Hypocrisie, will end in Apostacy. 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 hypocrisie, you will end in Apostacy.
5. If you would not depart from the Lord through an unbelieving heart, take heed of strangeness with God, want of Communion in private: Enmity begins in strangeness among men; First, people grow strange, and then they come to hate one another, and to be enemies to one another: Enmity begins with strangeness, and truly so it is with God; First strangeness, and then Enemies: If you would not depart from God, the Living God; O take heed of strangeness with God, maintain your private Communion.