A29372:899
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.
4. If you would not look back in declining times, be sure of this: That you do not run a share, or a part in the Vessel that God is about to destroy: Where my grief is, there is my finger; where my ⟨p. 252⟩love is, there is my eye; If I have a share and a part in the Vessel that God is about to destroy, I shall look after the Vessel, what becomes thereof. Why now Babylon that art to be destroyed, Babylon is not to repent; Babylon that art to be destroyed: Babylon is not to be reformed: Wash dirt an hundred times, and you cannot make clean the dirt; Babylon is not to be reformed, but to be destroyed; Take heed therefore of running a part or a share in the Boat or Vessel that God hath laid out for destruction, for if you have a part and a share there, you will look back. But
5. If you would not look back in declining times, let us consider in the fear of the Lord, what an evil thing it is to look back: Briefly thus.
1. Thereby you lose all you have wrought; Thereby you will lose all your losses; There is much gain in losing for Jesus Christ; There is gain in our losses, by looking back you will lose all your losses, and the gain thereby.