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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
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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.
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.
2. Thereby you will lose the Testimony of your own Integrity; Yet saith God, Job held fast his Integrity: And if we don't look back in declining times, then our hearts will tell us, we were upright before him, but if we look back in declining times, our consciences will tell us we were never right before him.
3. Thereby also you will lose the comfort of those glorious times that are to come: Friends and Beloved, glorious times there are a coming, that are at the back side of this hedge, that are but a little way off; that are on the back-side of this affliction; glorious times that are a coming, and when they come, if ye stand and hold out, you will have the comfort of those glorious times: But