A29368:122
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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Secondly, Would you know whether you be comforted in a way of free grace and love, you may know it by the ebbing and flowing of your comforts, which will ebb and flow according to the cause: They say the Marigold opens and shuts with the Sun, when the Sun shines it opens, when the Sun withdraws it shuts, it opens and shuts according to the withdrawing and shining of the Sun: and so if your comforts be true, the more the righteousness of Christ opens before you, the more the Sun of righteousness shines upon you, the more you will be comforted: If your comforts be true, the more the freeness of the love of God is opened to you, the more will the comfort of the soul be enlarged; if your comforts be true, the more God shines with his countenance, the more is the soul comforted: Lord says David in Psalm 4.6. Lift up the ⟨p. 49⟩light of thy countenance upon us, Thou hast put more gladness in my heart than in the time that their Corn and their wine increased. Now according to the opening and shutting of these things, so will your comforts be. How is it therefore with you? Is there any ebbing and flowing? How is the righteousness of Christ? How is the light of Gods countenance discovered to you? Are they laid open to you? Then are you truly comforted in a way of free grace and love. That is the second.
Secondly, Would you know whether you be comforted in a way of free grace and love, you may know it by the ebbing and flowing of your comforts, which will ebb and flow according to the cause: They say the Marygold opens and shuts with the Sun, when the Sun shines it opens, when the Sun withdraws it shuts, it opens and shuts according to the withdrawing and shining of the Sun: and so if your comforts be true, the more the righteousness of Christ opens before you, the more the Sun of righteousness shines upon you, the more you will be comforted: If your comforts be true, the more the freeness of the love of God is opened to you, the more will the comfort of the soul be enlarged; if your comforts be true, the more God shines with his countenance, the more is the soul comforted: Lord saies David in Psalm 4.6. Lift up the ⟨p. 49⟩light of thy countenance upon us, Thou hast put more gladness in my heart than in the time that their Corn and their wine increased. Now according to the opening and shutting of these things, so will your comforts be. How is it therefore with you? Is there any ebbing and flowing? How is the righteousness of Christ? How is the light of Gods countenance discovered to you? Are they laid open to you? Then are you truly comforted in a way of free grace and love. That is the second.