A29368:156
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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1. I shall speak a little by way of Introduction: It is a great matter, and of infinite concernment to be saved, and to go to Heaven forever. For,
First, You are thereby saved from wrath to come; you count it here a great matter to be delivered from the wrath of man; but it is a far greater mercy to be delivered from the wrath of Devils, to be delivered from their fury and malice, and not to lye at their mercy to all Eternity. Yea,
Secondly, You shall be delivered from all sorrow, both inward and outward, and if so, how blessed, and happy are you, for you shall die in the Lord; And blessed are the dead that die in the Lord, for they rest from their labours, &c. Rev 14.13. It is a mercy to have meat and drink, and a bed to lye on, but it is a greater mercy not to need them; in Heaven you shall be freed from these needs and necessities. You walk here, but it is with a burden; you hear now, but it is with a burden; you repent now, but it is with a burden: But in Heaven you shall be freed, not only from the guilt of the neglect of duty, but from the burden of duty ⟨p. 60⟩also, Heaven knows of no duty that hath a burden with it. Thus you shall be freed. Again,