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A29372 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. Bridge, William, 1600?-1670. 1668 (1668) Wing B4463; ESTC R28532 153,225 263

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goods and pulling things out of the Fire But at last Where 's the Child in the Cradle So at last when we come to die O where 's my Soul all this while Your heart will reproach you when you come to die and blessed is that man or woman whose heart shall not reproach him when he comes to die Yea let me say this farther you cannot more prejudice the thing you love nor wrong your selves more than by loving it too much and not using of it as if you us'd it not A man leans upon a stick and if it be too weak it breaks he breaks the stick and it runs into his hand the stick suffers and his hand suffers So when we come to lean upon a thing and dont use it as if we us'd it not it breaks and it runs into our hands Look into the 23 of Ezek. and you shall see there how the Jews lovers and what they rested on run into their hands v. 5. And Aholah played the Harlot when she was mine and she doted on her Lovers on the Assyrians her Neighbours v. 7. Thus she committed her whoredomes with them with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria and with all on whom she doted with all their Idols she defiled her self What becomes of her Read v. 9. Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers into the hand of the Assyrians upon whom she d●ted Wherefore Why she doted upon the Assyrians her lovers and I have given her into the hand of the Assyrians her lovers upon whom she doted Why when a people shall dote upon this and that God will give them into the hand of their lovers and make them to run into their hands 't is a most prejudicial thing to dote upon any thing in this World And indeed to say no more in it but this how will you be able to suffer Suffering times are come Christians not coming but come How will you be able to suffer in these suffering times if you dont use the World as if you us'd it not What makes the difficulty in suffering but because we cannot part with this or that Relation or this or that comfort Oh this makes the difficulty in our sufferings do but use the World now as if you us'd it not you will be the more able to suffer but if you dont use the world as if you us'd it not how will you be able to suffer in this suffering day Wherefore as you do desire that you may be able to suffer in this suffering day As you do desire that you may not be whipt by your own lovers that you may ●ot be given into the hand of your own lovers that that which you rest upon should not run into your hand As you do desire that your own hearts may not reproach you when you come to dye As you do desire that you may not be defiled by the things of the world As you do desire that you may have communion with Christ in his death and in his Resurrection And as you do desire that you may have this mark and character of a good man labour so to use this world as if you used it not But Seventhly you will say What shall we do that we may get our hearts into this gratious and holy frame which indeed will fit us for every condition under grace what shall we do that we may use the world as if we us'd it not First I shall a little farther speak to this and shew you what that man doth that doth use the world as if he used it not And secondly give you some means First of all for that what that man doth that doth use the world as if he used it not 1. He will be sure to use Grace in the use of the world and in all his dealings in the world and the things thereof He is never satisfied unless he doth see that he doth use Grace in the use of the world and the things thereof 2. He is alwayes ready to give up that part of the world unto God wherein his affections are most engaged His Isaac for saith he God doth use to try his people in the things wherein they do most delight And therefore still he is upon that ready to give up that unto God wherein his affections are the most engaged 3. He will be sure to stand at a distance from the World and the things thereof in the getting as well as in the keeping and in the keeping as well as in the getting There are some that are very worldly in the getting part and are very free and prodigal as to the keeping Some are not so worldly in the getting but they are worldly in the keeping A man that doth use the world as if he used it not he doth stand at a distance from the things of the world in the getting as well as in the keeping and in the keeping as well as in the getting 4. He doth not place his Religion in a morning and in an evening duty but in his walking with God in his place Every man hath so much grace as he uses in his place Consider what I say He doth not place his Religion he that uses the world as if he used it not in a morning and in an evening Prayer but in his walking with God Adams tryal did not lye in the Morning and in the Evening Prayer but Adams tryal lay among the Trees So the tryal of a man don't lye in the morning and in the evening duty but in the Trees and in his Calling and in his place And he doth not place his Religion meerly in a morning Prayer or in an evening Prayer and all the day after muddling up and down in the earth No he that uses the world as if he used it not he doth not place his Religion in an Evening or in a Morning duty but in walking with God in the use of the world 5. A man that uses the world as if he used it not he is sometimes more afraid of prosperity than of adversity All men are afraid of adversity but a man that uses the world as if he used it not he is sometimes more afraid of prosperity I am sure of this he will fear God in prosperity and love God in Adversity Now therefore would you use the world as if you used it not remember these five things But secondly by way of Means If you would use the world and the things thereof as if you used it not then labour to possess your hearts much with Gods Allsufficiency In Psal 62. If riches increase set not your hearts upon them once and twice have I heard it that power belongs unto God And mercy also unto the Lord God's All-sufficient there 's enough in God alone Come O my Soul possess your heart with this Ah there 's enough in God alone Still be pressing this upon your own souls There 's enough in God alone Gods All-sufficient
Secondly Look upon the things of the World with the prospective of the Scripture not with one of the worlds glasses Not with the worlds Multiplying-glass The world and the glass of the world If you look upon the world with the glass of the world there you shall find that the things of the world are called Goods and they are called Substance An Estate and Substance But look upon the world with the Prospective of the Scriptures there they are called Shadows there they are called Vanities there they are called Things that are not What 's the reason that people are so much in love with the things of the world but because they look upon them with the multiplying glass of the world and not with the glass and prospective of the Scripture Thirdly Never fall in love with any condition for it self but for the good of the condition Love not your condition for the condition it self but for the God of your condition I do but name things Fourthly Take all Gods Allarums of death and mingle those with the consideration of the death of Christ Christ crucified There is never a death that doth pass before us but its Gods Alarm and it calls off from the world and the things thereof Truly this I must say It is not all the deaths in the world will make us dye to the world only the death of Christ take Christ Crucified and then you will dye to the world And therefore I say take Gods Alla●ums of death but be sure that you mingle those Alarums with the consideration of the death of Jesus Christ And then fifthly Afford the world and the things thereof so much of your love as better things do leave For Christians that which is too cold for God is hot enough for the world I say it again That which is too cold for God is hot enough for the world and therefore afford the things of the world so much of your love as better things do leave for that which is too cold for God is hot enough for the world and the things thereof Sixthly Let the name of the Lord be very precious in your hearts and in your eyes and then you will use the things of the world as if you us'd them not Abraham had a very great regard unto the Name of God and he would not have it said that the King of Sodom made him rich not a shoe-latchet will he take from him it shall never be said that the King of Sodom made Abraham rich He had a very high esteem of the Name of God O God alone shall have the honour saith Abraham of making Abraham rich it shall never be said the King of Sodom made Abraham rich He had a great care of the Name of God So if men would carry the sense of Gods Name with them into the World and the things thereof they would use the World as if they us'd it not It shall never be said that a base unworthy way made me rich no God shall have the honour of it and Faith shall have the honour of it and Prayer shall have the honour on 't Seventhly Go to the Lord and beg of the Lord to fulfil his promises Now Gods promises are very many this way but I shall only turn you unto that in the last of Zech. 20. a promise spoken concerning the latter times In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses holiness unto the Lord. The bells of the horses upon the bells of the Temple no upon the bells of the horses your Carriers horses In that day shall there be holiness upon the bells of the horses holiness unto the Lord And the pots in the Lords house shall be like the bowls before the Altar yea every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of Hosts Every pot in Jerusalem every pot in your house shall be holiness unto the Lord go to God to fulfil this promise O ●here is such a promise lies for the l●tter times let 's go to God to fulfil this promise that holiness may be written upon all our pots and then shall we use this world as if we us'd it not Eighthly and lastly Consider what a good thing it is to use this world as if we us'd it not Thereby you shall be able for to want and to part with the world with ease I know how to want saith Paul and I know how to abound Truly give me but this grace and I will speak with Paul give me but this grace to use the world as if I us'd it not and I will say with him Now I know how to want and how to abound If you use your Relation as if you us'd it not you will part with your Relation more easily if you use your Land as if you us'd it not you will part with it more easily Christians parting times are coming the Lord knows how soon we may be parted from the bosom of our dearest Relations and from all our enjoyments that we have here would you part easily when the parting blow shall come Now use the world as if you us'd it not now use the world as if you us'd it not Thereby also you shall have more of the world have it in more abundance by using the world as if you us'd it not you shall be no loser I have sometimes stood and wondred at Abraham for we say that the rouling stone gathers no Moss Abraham went out of his own Country God commands him in Gen. 12. to forsake his Kindred and his Fathers house So Abraham departed v. 4. and Abraham came and they went out to go into the Land of Canaan and into the Land of Canaan they came v. 5. And at v. 10. There was a famine in the Land and Abraham went down into Egypt A famine in the Land why but did not God call him thither yes Go unto a Land that I shall shew thee v. 1. God shewed him thither yet there he met with a famine Obs So one may have a clear call from God and yet meet with a great deal of afflictions in the way that God calls them to he goes down to Egypt to sojourn there When he came into Egypt the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarah Abrahams Wife At v. 18. And Pharoah called Abraham and said what is this now therefore behold thy Wife take her and go thy way And they sent him away and his Wife and all that he had ver 10. Well away they go And Abraham went out of Egypt he and his Wife and all that he had and Lot with him into the South v. 2. And Abraham was very rich in Cattel in silver and in gold A strange thing to grow rich in Cattel How could he drive his Cattel up and down from Egypt to Canaan and up and down the Country Yes thus removing at the Command of the Lord living in Tents and using the world as if he