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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.
8. If this story of Lot's Wise be true, and do live in our memory: Then here we may see what an evil thing it is to mis-choose in our choosing time. ⟨p. 248⟩Lot had two choices once, he had a choice before, when there was a difference between Abram's Servants and his, Abraham condescends, and gives him his choice: Lot thou art my younger, but I'll yield for peace sake (as we should all do for peace sake) but Lot take thy choice; all the Country was before him, and he chose Sodom, but God fired him out of that choice: Now he was to go out of Sodom, he and his Wife and Children were to go out of Sodom, and L•t (saith God) fly to the Mountain: Not so my Lord, there is little Zoar, let me go thither, and God let him have his choice, and yielded to him, but it cost him dear: What an evil thing is it to mis-choose in choosing times?
8. If this story of Lot's Wise be true, and do live in our memory: Then here we may see what an evil thing it is to mis-chuse in our chusing time. ⟨p. 248⟩Lot had two choises once, he had a choice before, when there was a difference between Abram's Servants and his, Abraham condescends, and gives him his choice: Lot thou art my younger, but I'le yield for peace sake (as we should all do for peace sake) but Lot take thy choice; all the Country was before him, and he chose Sodom, but God fired him out of that choice: Now he was to go out of Sodom, he and his Wife and Children were to go out of Sodom, and L•t (saith God) fly to the Mountain: Not so my Lord, there is little Zoar, let me go thither, and God let him have his choice, and yielded to him, but it cost him dear: What an evil thing is it to mis-chuse in chusing times?
9. If this story of Lot's Wife be true, and do live in our memory, Then here we may see by way of Instruction: That though God will lay out an hiding place for his people, in times of public Calamity: Yet if they sin in the way, they may perish or miscarry in the very face of their hiding place. It appears that Lt had lost his Wife before he came at Zoar,