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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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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.
I shall speak to this Negatively and Affirmatively.
First Negatively, There is a comfort that is the daughter of time; a man or woman is sorrowful, but time wears it out, time comforts him; this comfort that springs from, and ariseth out of time, is not true comfort; neither is that man truly comforted by free grace. But when the soul is truly comforted in a way of free grace, then he is comforted by the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost bearing witness that he is the Child of God.
Secondly, There is a comfort that ariseth from the satisfaction of a natural ⟨p. 44⟩conscience: A man knows by nature, that there is a God, and that this God is to be prayed unto, and therefore he prays accordingly; and when he hath done, his natural conscience is satisfied, and he is then comforted; but no• if a mans comfort arise only from this, ••m the satisfaction of a natural conscience, that man is not truly comforted; for he that is truly comforted, is comforted by joy in believing: in whom believing ye rejoice, Rom. 15.13.
Secondly, There is a comfort that ariseth from the satisfaction of a natural ⟨p. 44⟩conscience: A man knows by nature, that there is a God, and that this God is to be prayed unto, and therefore he prayes accordingly; and when he hath done, his natural conscience is satisfied, and he is then comforted; but no• if a mans comfort arise only from this, m the satisfaction of a naturall conscience, that man is not truly comforted; for he that is truly comforted, is comforted by joy in believing: in whom believing ye rejoyce,