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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.
2. If you would not look back in declining ⟨p. 251⟩times: Take heed of leaving any Nest-egg in the day of Reformation; if there be an Egg left in the Nest, sure enough the Hen will return to the Nest to lay yet. So in the time of Reformation, If a Nest-Egg be left, as God knows what Nest-eggs were left among us: But I say, If in a time of public Reformation Nest-eggs be left, there will be a return of the Hen to the Nest-egg there. Will you know what that good man said, Mr. Dearing before Queen Elizabeth: The house is swept, and the Dirt is behind the Door, there comes a Hen and scrapes it all out again: But I put it into this, If a Nest-egg be left, be it a public Reformation, or a private Reformation; yet if a Nest-egg be left, there will be a returning back again.
2. If you would not look back in declining ⟨p. 251⟩times: Take heed of leaving any Nest-egg in the day of Reformation; if there be an Egg left in the Nest, sure enough the Hen will return to the Nest to lay yet. So in the time of Reformation, If a Nest-Egg be left, as God knows what Nest-eggs were left among us: But I say, If in a time of publick Reformation Nest-eggs be left, there will be a return of the Hen to the Nest-egg there. Will you know what that good man said, Mr. Dearing before Queen Elizabeth: The house is swept, and the Dirt is behind the Door, there comes a Hen and scrapes it all out again: But I put it into this, If a Nest-egg be left, be it a publick Reformation, or a private Reformation; yet if a Nest-egg be left, there will be a returning back again.
3. If you would not look back in declining times, Then be sure that you never part friends with any sin: Some will part with their sin, but they will part friends with it. Saith one, By the grace of God I will never commit this sin again, and I'll go but this time into this company, but after this time I will never go to them again: and so they part friends with their sin: Why, if a man be to part with his friend, he goes part of the way with him, and having parted friends, they look after one another; And so when a man parts friends with his sin, he will certainly look back again: But if a man would never look back to his sin in declining times, let him part as an enemy to it. He that will part friends with his sin, will certainly return to his sin again.