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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.
If this story of Lot's Wife be true, and do live in our Remembrance; By way of Caution: Why should we not all take heed how we look back to worldly Interests, in the day when the Son of man shall be Revealed, or in this day of the Gospel, when the Son of man is Revealed? You see what became of Lot's Wife for her looking back: and therefore why should we not all of us take heed, how we look back or decline in this day that the Son of man is Revealed?
You will say, what shall we do that we may not decline? What shall we do that we may so remember Lot's Wife, that we may not decline or look back in declining times?
I shall not speak at large unto the Argument: Only thus.
I shall not speak at large unto the Argument: Onely thus.
If you would not look back in declining times, shut your eyes and your ears against all the allurements and threatenings of the World: For the Devil he tempts much now in these days to false Worship, as he tempted our Saviour Christ, when he said: All this will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me: That was false Worship: So now the Devil saith, All this living and preferment will I give thee, if thou wilt worship me so: This Cupboard with Plate will I give thee; this Chamber hung with Tapestry will I give thee, if thou wilt worship so; This great living and preferment will I give thee, if thou wilt worship so: If thou wilt not worship, all this will I take from thee: Would you therefore be kept, that you may never look back? Shut your eyes, and shut your ears, go blindfold into Gods Commandments, as Abraham your Father did.