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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, Is it possible for a man that fears the Lord, to do sometimes as others do?
Yes he may: For the Apostle speaks plainly concerning the same, Rom. 12.1. Mark what he saith; I beseech you brethren by the mercies of God, That ye be not conformable to this present world, &c. But now observe this; That it is one thing what a man doth in a sudden passion, and another thing what he doth in his serious consideration: For take a man that fears the Lord, and in his sudden passion he shall deny Christ as well as another; but in the way of serious consideration he shall never do it. And further take notice, that it is one thing what a man doth in a particular action, and another ⟨p. 94⟩thing what he doth in his common practice, for you may find in Scripture, that Gods people have sometimes run away from God as to a particular Action, but yet in their constant course they feared the Lord, and therefore those that fear the Lord do not do as others do, because if they turn aside, they repent of their so doing, and turn to God again: So I say there is still a difference between them that fear the Lord, & those that do not. But
Fifthly, Suppose a man do truly fear the Lord, what is the Issue and consequence thereof? why the Issue will be this: If you fear the Lord, God will deal well with you, he will deal well with you in a special manner: he will make a difference between you & another in his dispensations. Psal. 1. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of Sinners, nor setteth in the heat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law doth he meditate day and night; he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth its fruit in his season, his lease also shall not wither, but whatsoever he doth shall prosper; the ungodly are not so, but are like unto the chaff, which the wind driveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not