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The works of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, now preacher…The vvorks of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, now preacher…
The works of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, now preacher of the Word of God at Yarmouth. The third volume. [sic] Viz. 1. The spiritual life, and in-being of Christ in all believers. 2. The woman of Canaan.The vvorks of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, now preacher of the Word of God at Yarmouth. The third volumn. [sic] Viz. 1. The spiritual life, and in-being of Christ in all believers. 2. The woman of Canaan.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1649
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.
Duty. 1 First. If we be alive indeed, & made partakers of this Spiritual life: Why then should we not live at an higher rate than the world does which have none of this life? The Beast lives at an higher rate than the Plant, or the Herb does; why? because it hath an higher life than the Plant, or Herb hath. Man (as man) lives at an higher rate than the Beast does; why? because man (as man) hath an higher life than the Beast hath. And if a man have this Spiritual life, he hath a life that is higher than the men of the worlds life is: and therefore, if we be alive, and made partaker of this Spiritual life; why should we not live at a higher rate? why
should I not say to my own soul thus, (and speak it often) O my soul, Wherein doest thou live at a higher rate than Civil men do? thou hast a higher life, (thou sayest) why doest thou not then live at a higher rate?
should I not say to my own soul thus, (and speak it often) O my soul, Wherein doest thou live at a higher rate than Civil men do? thou hast a higher life, (thou saiest) why doest thou not then live at a higher rate?
Duty. 2 Secondly. If we be alive indeed, and made partakers of this Spiritual life: Why should our hearts run after the things of the world, so as to feed on them as our meat, to be satisfied with them? Every life lives upon some meat that maintains it, and is suitable to it. The Herb hath one kind of life, and it hath a meat which suits to it. The Beasts have another life, and they have a meat that does suit to that life. Man hath another life different from the Beast, and therefore he hath a meat that does suit to his life. Now this Spiritual life, 'tis another kind of life than the natural life of man is, and therefore it must have a meat that does suit with it, meat that the world knows not of. Says our Saviour,