A29368:101
The freeness of the grace and love of God to believers discovered in reference…
The freeness of the grace and love of God to believers discovered in reference to 1. their services and suffering, 2. their consolations, and 3. their salvation and eternal glory : together with the excellency of the fear of God, the goodness and pleasantness of brotherly love, the wisdom of hearing the voice of the rod, repentance the only way to prevent judgements / delivered in several sermons by the late reverend and faithful minister of Christ, Mr. William Bridge ...The freeness of the grace and love of God to believers discovered in reference to 1. their services and suffering, 2. their consolations, and 3. their salvation and eternal glory : together with the excellency of the fear of God, the goodness and pleasantness of brotherly love, the wisdom of hearing the voice of the rod, repentance the only way to prevent judgements / delivered in several sermons by the late reverend and faithful minister of Christ, Mr. William Bridg ...
London: printed for Nath. Crouch, 1671
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But some may object and say, can none but God alone comfort?
No none but God alone can rate off Satan. If a great dog, or mastiff be worrying a child or a sheep, a stranger comes and strikes him, and calls him off, but the dog takes no notice of him; but when the Master comes, he rates him off presently; none but the Master can do it. So here it is none but God that can rate off Satan from worrying the poor drooping soul, when it is under temptation, none but God the Master: It is not in ⟨p. 34⟩the power of any creature, but in the power of God alone; it is in the power of none but the third person in the Trinity, the spirit of God: what needed the third person in the Trinity to have come into the world as he is now, if any other could comfort. As none can redeem but Christ the second person of the Trinity; because the second person came from Heaven on purpose to redeem. So none can comfort but God, and his spirit; because the third person came from Heaven to do it, there is none but God alone that can comfort a poor soul.
That is the third particular.