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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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17. If you would not depart from God, the living God, through unbelief, Then take heed how you run with the times: Good friends, there is the truth of the times, and there is the error of the times: There is the grace of the times, and there is the sin of the times, seldom that the generality of people hit it, they seldom hit the truth of the times, seldom hit the grace of the times; I say, the generality of people seldom hit it, they are like the dead Fish that swims down the water, the living Fish swims against the Tide; and so the living Christian swims against the tide of the Times: Take heed, if you would not depart from the living God through unbelief; take heed how you fall with the times; for I say, seldom do the generality of people hit the truth, or the grace of the times.
18. Know that it is the greatest honour (possess your souls on't) that may be, to wait upon the Lord, and the greatest dishonour to depart from God through unbelief; Thereby a man proclaims his own folly; thereby he doth put himself out of Gods protection; thereby he casts dirt and reproach in the very face of God: Is it not because there is no God in Israel, that ye go down to Baal-zebub the God of Ekron? God will cast dirt and reproach in their faces, that cast dirt and reproach in his face: 'Tis the greatest honour to wait upon the Lord; 'Tis the greatest dishonour to depart from God.
19. Be very sensible of your own unbelieving heart, and of all your former departings from God: The best way to keep from new sins, is to be very sensible of old sins; he that is very sensible of his former sins, shall through the grace of God be kept ⟨p. 233⟩from new sins: Have you departed from the Lord, be sensible of your departings from God, be sensible of your own unbelieving heart: There is many that go up and down, and are never sensible of their own unbelieving hearts, twenty, thirty, forty years they have lived, and yet not sensible of their unbelieving heart, though it's the greatest Evil: Well, if you be sensible of your unbelief, and former departings from God, then you shall be kept from departing from the Lord through unbelief.