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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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Thirdly, If you be comforted in a way of free grace and love, then your comforts are true friends to holiness of life. That comfort that is wrought by the grace of God without you, is the greatest friend to the grace of God within you, and to holiness in your lives: False comfort is a friend to sin, a neighbour; a guard to sin; but no friend to true and gracious comfort; yea those that have this false comfort can endure sins against conscience: But now where there is true comfort, and comfort from the grace of God, there conscience is as the Apple of the Eye, and the man cannot endure the least sin, he cannot bear the least Mote of sin to lie upon his conscience: How ⟨p. 50⟩is it therefore with you? is your comfort a friend to holiness of life? and can you say, the more comforted I am the more holy I am? Then you are truly comforted.
Thirdly, If you be comforted in a way of free grace and love, then your comforts are true friends to holiness of life. That comfort that is wrought by the grace of God without you, is the greatest friend to the grace of God within you, and to holiness in your lives: False comfort is a friend to sin, a neighbour; a guard to sin; but no friend to true and gracious comfort; yea those that have this false comfort can indure sins against conscience: But now where there is true comfort, and comfort from the grace of God, there conscience is as the Apple of the Eye, and the man cannot indure the least sin, he cannot bear the least Mote of sin to lie upon his conscience: How ⟨p. 50⟩is it therefore with you? is your comfort a friend to holiness of life? and can you say, the more comforted I am the more holy I am? Then you are truly comforted.
But suppose I want comfort now, and that I am one of a drooping, trembling spirit, and of an afflicted heart; what shall I do that I may be comforted, and comforted in a way of free grace? I Answer;