A29372:891
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.
11. A•d the main of all is this: If the story of Lot's Wife be true, and do live in our memory, O what an evil thing is it to look back, and to decline in declining times? How quick was God with Lot's Wife for looking back? She never sinned this sin before, 'twas the first sin that ever in this kind she committed; and she might have said: Why Lord, It's the first time that ever I committed it, and indeed I was taken before I was aware thus to look back, I did not consider well of What I did: But God turned her presently into a Pillar of Salt: God was quick with her: Why? For to show thus much, God will be quick with Apostates: God will turn the Turners; She turned to look back, and God turned her into a Pillar of Salt. And so for those that turn, God will turn; God will turn Turners: God will be quick with Turners; God will turn Turners into a Pillar of Salt. God is quick with Apostates, and such as do decline. And thus I have given you these eleven things by way of Instruction.
11. A•d the main of all is this: If the story of Lot's Wife be true, and do live in our memory, O what an evil thing is it to look back, and to decline in declining times? How quick was God with Lot's Wife for looking back? She never sinned this sin before, 'twas the first sin that ever in this kind she committed; and she might have said: Why Lord, It's the first time that ever I committed it, and indeed I was taken before I was aware thus to look back, I did not consider well of What I did: But God turned her presently into a Pillar of Salt: God was quick with her: Why? For to shew thus much, God will be quick with Apostates: God will turn the Turners; She turned to look back, and God turned her into a Pillar of Salt. And so for those that turn, God will turn; God will turn Turners: God will be quick with Turners; God will turn Turners into a Pillar of Salt. God is quick with Apostates, and such as do decline. And thus I have given you these eleven things by way of Instruction.
As many I might give you in a way of Caution, but the Instance only in one.