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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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needs be the root and ground and cause of Apostacy Why now what is the cause of all our sins but our unbelief People do not think so What 's the reason that men are so covetous and worldly but because of their unbelief What 's the reason when people are in trouble that they use indirect means to get out of trouble but because of their unbelief What 's the Reason that a Servant or a Child will tell lies Because of Unbelief Unbelief is the Mother sin the Parent sin the Breeding sin and therefore Unbelief is the cause of departing and going off from God And if so why should we not all then take heed of an evil heart of unbelief That 's the Remedy that is here prescribed for the cure of this disease Take heed Brethren take heed least there be in any of you an evil heart of Unbelief Take heed What should we take heed of Take heed of departing from God and take heed of unbelief and of an evil heart of unbelief whereby we depart from God Take heed of departing from God For as we have heard already it is a very dangerous thing to depart from God Let me add this If we depart from God who will receive us If a Proclamation be out against a man as a Traitor who durst receive him And if a man do depart from the Lord what creature dare receive him In 2 Joh. speaking of some that departed from the Lord Whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the Doctrine of Christ if there come any into you and bring not this Doctrine receive him not into your house neither bid him God speed The Kings Proclamation is out against him take heed how you receive him Here 's a command sent from the Lord to take heed how you receive such an one I say if we depart from God who will receive us And if you depart from God you will hardly ever return unto him again you know the place it is impossible we should be renewed by Repentance Faith is but once delivered to the Saints If the leaves be off in the Winter the tree will grow again but if it be pluck't up by the roots it will grow no more Twice dead saith the Apostle dead by the Law but if a man depart from God under the Gospel he is twice dead now a man that 's twice dead certainly he will never recover twice dead How twice dead Not that a man was twice alive A man is hanged and so is dead after he is hanged he is quartered here 's a second death he is twice dead not that he had a life between these two deaths between his hanging and his quartering but he is twice dead So a man that departs from God under the Gospel he is twice dead He was alive once in the state of Innocency but he lost it and now he is dead by the Gospel and out asunder by the Gospel he is twice dead and will hardly ever return to God again A man that lives under the Gospel and departs from God a thousand to one if ever he return to God again And if we do depart from God God will depart from us God is with us while we are with him but if we forsake the Lord he will forsake us if we depart from God God will depart from us God comes first to us but we go first from him God doth not leave any but those that leave him first He comes to us before we come to him but if we depart from him he will depart from us and if God go the Devil comes the Lord rejected Saul and an evil Spirit came presently upon him therefore who would not take heed of departing from God But Secondly As we are to take heed of departing from God so we are to take heed of Unbelief and of an unbelieving heart whereby we depart from God for the sin of unbelief and an unbelieving heart is very cunning and makes a deceitful heart Therefore saith the Apostle in the words following least ye be hardned through the deceitfulness of sin It hath very many pretences and fair colours When they were invited by the Gospel what excuses had they all from unbelief I have married a Wife and I cannot come and I have bought a piece of ground and I must needs go see it I pray thee have me excused And I have bought five yoke of Oxen and I go to prove them I pray thee have me excused No no I have unbelief in my heart and I cannot come Unbelief made all these Excuses 't is cunning heart a deceiving sin the sin of unbelief And indeed it is such a sin as hardens insensibly that we cannot perceive You can see the tree the body of the tree and the bark of the tree and the boughs of the tree and the leaves of the tree but you cannot see the root of the tree Unbelief is a root sin and that 's least perceived Now when one hath to deal with a deceitful enemy that is least perceived had be not need take heed Take heed of departing from God through an evil heart of unbelief Quest The question then is What shall we do These are declining and departing times wherein many do and will depart from God make account on 't what shall we do that we may not depart from God through unbelief What shall we do that we may take heed of an unbelieving heart that we may take heed of departing from God I put them together into one question Now I shall give several directions here and so wind up 1. If you would not depart from God through unbelief in declining and departing times be sure that you keep close unto the word of God unto his appointments and take heed how you meddle with any appointments that are like to his For the more you depart from the word the more you depart from God and the more you meddle with appointments that are like to Gods the more you depart from the word Look into Exod. 30. and see what a Commandment there is not to meddle with any thing that 's like to Gods appointments at the 23 ver There 's direction concerning the holy ointment Take thou also unto thee principal spices of pure myrrh five hundred shekels and of sweet Cinamon half so much even two hundred and fifty shekels and of sweet Calamus two hundred and fifty shekels and of Cassia five hundred shekels after the shekel of the Sanctuary and of Oil Olive an hin Then at the 25 ver Thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment an ointment compound after the art of the Apothecary it shall be an holy anointing oil Well at the 33 ver Whosoever compoundeth any like it or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger shall even be cut off from his people You shall make none like it At the 34 ver You have directions for the making of an holy perfume The Lord said unto Moses Take unto thee sweet
iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me But as for those that keep this Commandment And sh●wing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my Commandments Why doth he say Commandments and not this Commandment The reason is this because in the second Commandment all institutions are commanded all the inventions of men are forbidden All the institutions of Christ come within the second Commandment and therefore saith he I will shew mercy to a thousand generations of those that l●ve me and ke●p my commandments Now here 's an hundred-fold in that mercy is sh●wn to a thousand generations Well what God gives to our children and to our posterity that he gives unto us A third consideration is this Look what that is which we have in eff●ct that we have in truth though we have it not in the formality Now look whatsoever you do lay out for Christ whatsoever worldly interest you do part withal and forsake for Christ that you shall have in effect Why because the same affection doth still remain I will express it thus Suppose you have a Crab-stock and there you plant a Harvie or a Pearmain or a Pippin why the Pippin is an hundred times better then the Crab would have been Why 't is the same stock still under the Harvie or Pippin or Pearmain onely there 's an Apple planted that 's an hundred times better then the Crab was So now you have a delight in the things of the world well you leave this delight for Christ you leave not the affection but there 's a better object planted upon the affection and there being a better object planted upon the same delight thus you have the same thing you part withal for the Name of Christ in an hundred-fold Fourthly look what that is that we have in a way of substitution that we have in truth and in effect though we have it not in formality Now look what that is that you do leave for the Name of Christ that you shall have an hundred-fold in a way of substitution The Apostles they left their houses Peter left a house it may be or a fisher-boat for Christ why he had an hundred houses in a way of substitution he had an hundred mens houses open to receive him and happie was that Lydia that could receive the Apostle And this is that which you have Psal 45. vers 10. Hearken O daughter and consider incline thine ear forget also thine own people and thy fathers house What then Why then at vers 16. In stead of thy fathers shall be thy children whom thou mayst make Princes in all the earth Here now is the same in a way of substitution 'T is true 't is not the same in formality but in a way of substitution here 's that which is an hundred-fold Fifthly look what that is which we have in a way of satisfaction that we have in truth and in effect though not in formality Look what that is that you do leave or forsake for Christ that you shall have in satisfaction an hundred-fold more then you had before If you leave any thing for Christ you shall have an hundred-fold more satisfaction in what you have given for Christ then what you keep for your selves So that an hundred-fold in a way of substitution and an hundred-fold in a way of satisfaction And thus you see how we receive an hundred-fold in this life That whatsoever you do lay out for Christ here you shall be paid an hundred-fold and how and in what manner But then secondly what is that reward that we shall have in ●he life to come Suppose a man do leave a worldly interest for the Name of Christ or that he do suffer for the Name of Christ what is that reward that he shall have in the world to come Truly that reward is great and I am not able to speak it it requires the unwearied hand and arm of Eternity to tell over all the wealth of glory that the suffering people of God shall have in the world to come Onely thus much I 'll say and briefly First of all That reward that you that are suffering Saints shall have in the world to come it shall be an open reward for saith Christ he that confesseth me before men him will I confess also before my Father c. Secondly it shall be a comfortable reward for saith the book of the Revelations Then all tears shall be wiped out of your eyes He doth not say From your eyes or from your cheeks no but they shall be wiped out of your eyes So that the eyes shall be then such a womb as shall never breed a tear again All tears shall be wiped not from your eyes but out of your eyes So in Rev. 7. Thirdly as it shall be a comfortable reward so an honourable reward for saith our Saviour Christ Be faithful unto the death and I will give thee the crown of life And Fourthly as it shall be an honourable reward so a proportionable reward a reward proportionable to all your sufferings You know what the Apostle saith These light affl●ctions which are but for a moment work for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory Will you say I but our afflictions are exceeding heavie Nay saith the Apostle they are light But grant they be to balance the account you shall have a weight of glory Will you say They are long and tedious Nay saith the Apostle they are but light But grant they be long and tedious To balance the account you shall have an exceeding and an eternal weight of glory And then fifthly as it shall be a reward proportionable so it shall be a reward transcending over and beyond proportion over and beyond all expression beyond all our apprehensions or thoughts Who is able to think or apprehend what the inheritance of the Saints in light is that inheritance that is incorruptible and undefiled and that fadeth not away Look into Rom. 8. If ye be children then are ye heirs heirs of God and joynt-heirs with Christ if so be that we suffer with him See it hangs upon suffering If so be that we suffer with him that we may be also glorified together Now if children then heirs All our children are not heirs well but all the children of God shall be heirs heirs of God What 's that Some think that's to be understood objectively that they shall inherit God and indeed they have all things that have him that hath all things Heirs of God But take it efficiently shall be Gods heirs and joynt-heirs with Christ He doth not say Joynt-purchasers with Christ but joynt-heirs joynt-heirs with Christ What shall Christ inherit Why Ch●ist is God the Fathers heir and he never d●spleased his Fath●r he will not disinherit him therefore Look what God the Father is worth that Christ shall be worth and look what Christ is worth that the suffering Saints