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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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SERMON I.
MATTH. 20.15, 16. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? Is thine eye evil because I am good? — So the last shall be first, and the first last; for many be Called but few Chosen.
I DO intend (God willing) to show you the freeness of the Grace of God in reference to mens Employments and Sufferings, and therefore have made choice of this Scripture, wherein you have the Parable of certain Labourers in the Vineyard, the Parable is propounded and applied; propounded from vers. 1. to vers. 16. For the ⟨p. 2⟩Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a man that is an Householder, which went out early in the morning to hire Labourers into his Vineyard, and when he had agreed with the Labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his Vineyard; and he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing in the Market-place; and he said unto them, go ye also into the Vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you, and they went their way; and again he went about the sixth hour, and the ninth hour, and did likewise; and about the eleventh hour he went out and saw others idle, and he said unto them, Why stand you here all the day idle? And they said unto him, because no man hath hired us: he said unto them, go you also into the Vineyard, and whatsoever is right, that shall you receive. So when Even was come, the Lord said unto his Steward of the Vineyard, call the Labourers and give them their hire, beginning from the last even to the first, and when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny, but when the first came they supposed that they should have received more, and they likewise received every man a penny, and when they had received it, they murmured against the good man of the house, saying, these last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal to