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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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Fifthly, There is a comfort that doth arise from the common work of the Holy Ghost; Some who have tasted of the Heavenly gift, and are made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and yet fall away, Heb. 6.4. The false ground received the word with joy: Now if a mans comfort ariseth from these common workings of the Holy Ghost, it is not true comfort: for he that is truly comforted, is comforted in a way of free love, his comfort is unspeakable, 1 Pet. 1.8. Whom having not seen you love, in whom though you now see him not, yet believing ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. Thus you see Negatively, ⟨p. 46⟩when a man is not truly comforted in these five particulars; a man is not truly comforted from time, nor from the satisfaction of a natural conscience, nor from a non-attendance to his condition, nor from the use of the creature, nor lastly from the common workings of the Holy Ghost.
Fifthly, There is a comfort that doth arise from the common work of the Holy Ghost; Some who have tasted of the Heavenly gift, and are made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and yet fall away, Heb. 6.4. The false ground received the word with joy: Now if a mans comfort ariseth from these common workings of the Holy Ghost, it is not true comfort: for he that is truly comforted, is comforted in a way of free love, his comfort is unspeakable, 1 Pet. 1.8. Whom having not seen you love, in whom though you now see him not, yet believing ye rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory. Thus you see Negatively, ⟨p. 46⟩when a man is not truly comforted in these five particulars; a man is not truly comforted from time, nor from the satisfaction of a natural conscience, nor from a non-attendance to his condition, nor from the use of the creature, nor lastly from the common workings of the Holy Ghost.