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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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Fourthly, Yet further It is in the matter of our salvation, as it is in the matter of our consolation, and comfort; and as I said of that so I say also of this. That the greater, and the more glorious any ⟨p. 66⟩mercy is, & the more worthy and great the person is that giveth it, and the more unworthy the person is that receives it, the more doth the grace of him appear who giveth it; now what greater mercy, what more glorious mercy, than Heaven and salvation. It is called the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Heaven, it is called, the Kingdom of glory, and Eternal glory, it is called Joy, Enter into the Joy of our Lord: and great is the Joy of our Lord; That Joy which was set before Christ, that is the Joy of the Saints in Heaven, It is such as eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him, 1 Cor. 2.9. Paul was wrapped up to Heaven, but when he came down he was not able to declare the glory thereof; Those that are in a war are better able to declare the passages of it than those that write it, but yet they are not able to declare all. So the Apostle could speak something of this great and infinite glory, but was not able to declare it all. There was one, who was asked by his Prince, what God was, he desired first, two days to answer, when they were past ⟨p. 67⟩he required four days, and after four days, he asked eight days to answer; So if you should ask me what glory that is, which is in my Text, I must take two days, and then four days, and then eight days to answer, and yet then I should not be able to declare, nor be able to express, this glory which is wrapped up in this one word Salvation.
Fourthly, Yet further It is in the matter of our salvation, as it is in the matter of our consolation, and comfort; and as I said of that so I say also of this. That the greater, and the more glorious any ⟨p. 66⟩mercy is, & the more worthy and great the person is that giveth it, and the more unworthy the person is that receives it, the more doth the grace of him appear who giveth it; now what greater mercy, what more glorious mercy, than Heaven and salvation. It is called the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Heaven, it is called, the Kingdom of glory, and Eternal glory, it is called Joy, Enter into the Joy of our Lord: and great is the Joy of our Lord; That Joy which was set before Christ, that is the Joy of the Saints in Heaven, It is such as eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard, neither hath it entred into the heart of man to conceive, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him,