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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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But why should he say the same words again in so short a compass? Why, it ⟨p. 58⟩was to show, not only that his heart was full of the free grace and love of God, but to show also that he thought he could never speak enough of it, and therefore he repeats it, by grace ye are saved; For by grace are ye saved: that is to say from first to last, you are saved by the free grace and love of God.
But why should he say the same words again in so short a compass? Why, it ⟨p. 58⟩was to shew, not only that his heart was full of the free grace and love of God, but to shew also that he thought he could never speak enough of it, and therefore he repeats it, by grace ye are saved; For by grace are ye saved: that is to say from first to last, you are saved by the free grace and love of God.
From whence then I take up this Doctrine.
Doct. That there is much of the free love and grace of God laid out in the matter of our salvation and eternal glory.