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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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Doct. That those that truly fear God will not do as others do.
The true fear of God will keep men from doing those things that other men will do; yea, though an action be to a mans advantage, yet they that fear God will not do it, if it be evil; and so it was with Nehemiah. But so did not I, because of the fear of God. For the opening of this we shall,
First, Inquire what it is to fear God; and we shall,
Secondly, Show you that a man that truly fears God, will do as Nehemiah did, ⟨p. 86⟩neither can he do as others do.
Secondly, Shew you that a man that truly fears God, will do as Nehemiah did, ⟨p. 86⟩neither can he do as others do.