A29368:209
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
First, The voice or cry, at the beginning of the Chapter; And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives, against their Brethren the Jews. And then,
Secondly, You have made known to you, what Nehemiah did in this case, in the 6, and 7, verses, And I was very angry when I heard their cry, and these words, then I consulted with my self, and I rebuked the Nobles, and the Rulers, &c.
Thirdly, You hear more of Nehemiahs acting at the 14, and 15 verses, Moreover ⟨p. 85⟩from that time that I was appointed to be their Governor in the Land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the King, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the Governor: For the former Governors that had been before me, were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver, yea even their servants bare rule over the people: But so did not I, because I feared God, because of the fear of God.
Thirdly, You hear more of Nehemiahs acting at the 14, and 15 verses, Moreover ⟨p. 85⟩from that time that I was appointed to be their Governour in the Land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the King, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the Governour: For the former Governours that had been before me, were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver, yea even their servants bare rule over the people: But so did not I, because I feared God, because of the fear of God.