A29368:252
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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But it may be some will say, I am afraid I do not fear the Lord, and so this comfort doth not belong to me; why consider
First, Do you make conscience of what you do, doth your conscience accuse you or not for what you do, do you find conscience accuse, or excuse?
Secondly, Have you not sinned in the dark, when none could accuse but God only, and do you Act, and walk, and live, and labour, as if you were in the presence and sight of God? if you do thus, then you do fear the Lord, And then it shall be well with you, Eccles. 8.12. Again
Thirdly, Do you run, and speak one to another, if so, then this is to fear the Lord, for it is said that they that feared the Lord spake often one to another, Mal. 3.16. And