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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
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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.
9. Take heed that you do not stand poring upon your Temptations, whatsoever your Temptations be: When the Children of Israel were stung by the Serpents in the Wilderness, they did not stand poring upon the Arm that was stung, and crying out, O my Arm, O how it is swelled! but they looked up upon the Brazen Serpent: If they had looked upon their Arm, and stood poring upon that, they had never been Cured: So now, if in case we be tempted, the way is, not to stand poring upon ⟨p. 229⟩the temptation, but to look off unto Christ: If therefore you would not depart from God in the time of Temptation, take heed of poring upon the Temptation, look off from that upon the brazen Serpent. And
9. Take heed that you do not stand poring upon your Temptations, whatsoever your Temptations be: When the Children of Israel were stung by the Serpents in the Wilderness, they did not stand poring upon the Arm that was stung, and crying out, O my Arm, O how it is swell'd! but they lookt up upon the Brazen Serpent: If they had lookt upon their Arm, and stood poring upon that, they had never been Cur'd: So now, if in case we be tempted, the way is, not to stand poring upon ⟨p. 229⟩the temptation, but to look off unto Christ: If therefore you would not depart from God in the time of Temptation, take heed of poring upon the Temptation, look off from that upon the brazen Serpent. And
10. Set the Lord always before your eyes, his All-sufficiency, his Fullness, his Grace, his Goodness: I have set the Lord always before me, at my right-hand (saith David) and therefore I shall not fall: So do you.
10. Set the Lord alwaies before your eyes, his All-sufficiency, his Fulness, his Grace, his Goodness: I have set the Lord alwaies before me, at my right-hand (saith David) and therefore I shall not fall: So do you.